Schlatter—The Development of the Vowel. 
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padule, parete, paura, pazienza, ragione, salassare, salute, 
sgabello, trattare. 
(b) EXAMPLES of learned words: ambascia, ambustione, 
anargiri, argemone, atellana, cattolico, clandestine, faccenda, 
faco-lta, favisse, flagello, frassinella, rangifero, scafandro, tra- 
pezio, valeriana. 
39. Vowel Assimilation.— 
(a) A—I to I—I: sigrino, for sagrino; 1 grimigna, for 
gramigna (at Pisa: see Pieri, AGr XII 144). 
(b) A—E to E—E: bestemmia, from ; 2 chete- 
cunieno, for catecumeno (influence of cheto?) ; ellegrare (Guitr 
tone,) from ellegro, for allegro. Possibly assimilation and 
then further development of E to I: schiccherare, for squae- 
cherare. 3 
(c) A—-O to 0—0: notomia, for natomia, aphetic for ana- 
tomia; ottone, from *lattone-; osogna (Sienese), for asogna; 4 
olocco (Lucchese), for alocco. 5 Possibly assimilation and then 
further development (see §61 (d)): usoliere. 9 
40. Vowel Dissimilation.— A-A to E-A: Setanasso, for 
Satanasso; segace (14th century), for sagace. 1 
§39. Note 1. Turkish zagrl, Persian s&gar!. 
2. Cf. M.-L., Ital. Gram., §130. “bestemmia mit e statt i under dem 
Einfluss des betonten e”; that is: blasfemia, biastemmia, bistemmia, 
bestemmia. 
3. See Caix, Studi, No. 528. 
4. See ZRPh IX 522. The Florentine form is sugna, aphetic (see §44 
(a)). 
6. The Florentine form is locco, loccaione; see §44 (b). 
6. r=“Legacciolo”; according to Caix, Studi, No. 168: <ansularius 
<ansula <ansa. Ansa is used in Tibullus with the me'aning of “the 
eye through which a shoe-lace is passed;” ansula is Classic Latin, 
— ‘loop, handle, ring.” Asuliere is used by Sacchetti. If Caix is 
correct, solluchero also belongs here: Caix, Studi, No. 577: “Sol- 
lueherare, ant. sollecherare, e andar in solluchero ‘struggersi di 
tenerezza, desiderio, ecc.;’ moden. sajugla, ‘sollucchero.’ La voce 
modenese tratta dal Galvani da saginicula (!) conduce a *salivicula. 
L ’ant. solleccherare 5 percio regoiarmente da *sali(v)iculare ‘andar 
in broda, struggersi’; nell ’u di solluccherare pare celarsi il v di salivi- 
cula.” But there is at least an analogy of the prefix from SUB- and, 
in the old form, probably of leccare and its derivatives, leech etto, 
leccheria; the Modenese form mentioned certainly points' towards 
salivic-ula. Other cases are: petetta (Lucca., -see Pieri, AG XII 172), 
for patata, with previous change of suffix, and noscondere (Pisa-Lucca,- 
see Barbi, in the Raccolta D’Ancona p. 244). 
§40. Note 1. Perhaps another case is memaluco, for mammalucco, 
from Arabic mamluk; but according to the Oxford Dictionary the 
Turkish pronunication is memluk and there is also in English a form 
memlo(o)k. 
