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41. Confusion of Prefix. 
(a) Intrusion of EX-: esentarsi (mod. illit.), for assentarsi; 
escesso, for accesso; iscondere, for nascondere (probably from 
escondere, *excondere, for abscondere). 
(b) Intrusion of IN~: imbasciata, for ambasciata (initial 
i-mb- is quite common, initial amb- is rare). 
(c) Intrusion of SUB-: soddisfare, for satisfare 1 . 2 
42. Analogy. —Aaron, the herb arum, from a poVj corruptly 
pronounced by analogy of the proper name Aaron; 1 turcasso, 
from rapKaa-Lov by analogy of turco; usciolo (^“specie di 
civetta”), for assiolo, from axio, 2 through uscire; susurnione, 
§41. Note 1. There are also the transitional or crossed forms sodis- 
fare, saddisfare, sadisfare; the development was satisfare> sadisfare, 
then by intrusion of so- (SUB), sodisfare and, by being misunderstood, 
soddisfare (sub-dis-fare'). 
2. Latin AD sometimes entered by confusion into words, also, as 
shown at the end of this note.—Latin AD in composition regularly 
developed in two ways: (1) before consonants, the D assimilated to 
the following consonant, and (2) before vowels, AD remained un¬ 
changed. By the development of AD to an Italian preposition a, A 
was popularly added to many words commencing with a vowel and 
also to some words commencing with a consonant. This last case 
may have any one of three causes: (1) confusion with forms which 
have AD-vowol, (2) intrusion of dialectal forms wherein AD-conson- 
ant did not produce geminated consonants, or (3), in some cases, fail¬ 
ure to express the geminated consonants orthographically. Examples 
of these four types are as follows: (a) AD before consonants with D 
assimilated: abbassare, accorrere, addirizzare, afferrare, etc. (very 
numerous); (b) AD before vowels: adagiare, aderire, adirarsi, adoc- 
chiare, adunare, etc.; (c) A before vowels (the modern examples are 
popular forms, the obsolete v^ere probably the same): aempiere, aen- 
tro, aescare, aesercitare, a'irare, a'izzare, aocchiare, aoliato, aombrare, 
aonestare, aoperare, aorare', aorbare, aormare, aornamento, aovare 
(from ovo, — ‘fare ovale”), auggiare, augnare, aunghiare, aumettare, 
aumiliare, aunc.inare, ausare; (d) A before consonants: adimandare, 
adunque, amenare, aserbare, asbassare (apparently: exbassare> 
sbassare> asbassare), astizzare (from stizzo, tizzo), astipolare, asem- 
prare, astagnare, astanco, aschierare, ascondere (apparently not ab¬ 
scondere, but *excondere), aroncigliarsi (Lucca), aritorzolato, asnello, 
ascarano, ane’ghittoso (cf. §27 (a) and note 3 to same). Although this 
composition with AD is naturally very common with verbs, it seems 
to have spread to some extent to nouns also, as seen in some examples 
in (d). The prefix, taken in all its forms is exceedingly common and 
popular and often added to wmrds without change of meaning, -cf. 
abbenche, abbastare, abbadare, abbisognoso, accagionare, accalognare, 
accambiare, arradunare, arricordo, etc., etc., all very popular or even 
illiterate. 
§42. Note 1. The same perversion exists in English; see the Ox¬ 
ford Dictionary, under aaron. 
2. In Pliny; see Harper’s Latin Dictionary, under asio. 
