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astrologo; stronomo, for astronomo 17 ; veggio (—“scaldino”) 18 . 
(c) Bergare, for albergare, from the form abbergare, where¬ 
in the LB has assimilated to BB (cf. §44 (a), note 1) ; cusare 
(in the Tavola Ritonda and elsewhere), for accusare; parte- 
nere, for appartenere; sassinare, for assassinare (sasso may 
have had some influence) ; scoltare, for ascoltare (unless it is 
a confusion of prefix, —EX- for supposed AD-) ; scondere, lor 
ascondere ; uto, for auto, for avuto. 
(d) Senza (and sanza), if derived from absentia; sai, in the 
expression “so sai,” for “so assai” 19 . 
45. Arbitrary Apheresis. —These cases are largely 
proper names, of which only a few are mentioned here. Meo, 
Mea, for Bartolommeo, -a; Tonio, Togno, for Antonio; Lena, 
for Maddalena; Cecco, for Francesco; etc., etc.; ’gnamo, for 
andiamo; teste, testeso, if from ante -ist’ -ipsu-, as Korting 
17. Also starlomaco, storlomia, istorlomia. The stages were probably 
as follows: astronomu(s), astronomo, stronomo (by apheresis or con¬ 
fusion with the resultant of the prefix EX- and other words commenc¬ 
ing with S-impura). stronomaco (by analogy of such words as mo- 
naco, indaco, calonaco, mantaco, sindaco, cronaca and also astrolago, 
prolago, folaga)., stornomaco (by metathe'sis of the R), storlomaco 
and storlomia (by dissimilation of N-M, cf. Girolamo) ; the form star* 
lomaco was produced similarly through starnomaco, from storno 
maco (O to A, by influence of the following R) ; the form istorlomia, 
after aphersis, has added a prosthetic I, by analogy of other words 
commencing with S-impura. 
18. From *lapideu-, according to Guarnerio, Rom. XX 67 remark; laeg- 
gio is also found. But cf. Canello. AG III 386, Caix, Studi, No. 653, W. 
Meyer, ZRPh VIII 216. 
19. Sai here is doubtless, from the usual ad-satis, and not merely satis. 
Nappo (— “mesciacqua d’argento o sim.”), from Germanic hnapp, 
later napf, presents nappo and anappo; the latter form seems to con¬ 
tinue in its initial A the German aspirate, the former neglects it. 
Abada (=3“femmina del rinoceronte”) has also the form bada, but 
the etymology is uncertain; see the Oxford Dictionary, under abada. 
Fogazza.ro (Piccolo Mondo Antico) uses the form (dialectally) giu- 
tarlo (for aiutarlo), although the preposition a precedes the expres¬ 
sion. Apheresis in which the vowel is undisturbed appears in aberin- 
to, for laberinto (cf. “6 un aberinto”); the form arbrinto also occurs; 
likewise, in the resultants of labrusca (sc. vltis; see Grober ALL III 
274), averustio (at Pistoia), abrostine, abrostino (also abrosco, abros- 
tolo, ambrostolo, averusto, labrostino, lambrusco, raveTuschio, rave- 
rusto,—see Caix, Studi, No. 69); likewise in avornello, from laburnu-. 
The form appamondo, for mappamondo, is curious; if a form nap- 
pamondo could be found, then un nappamondo might easily have pro¬ 
duced un appamondo,—perhaps even un mappamondo may have assim¬ 
ilated to un nappamondo 1 (cf. French nesple, natte, nappe, Italian nic- 
chio (from nvriXoS and juvr(i)\oS (?)).—M.-L., Ital. Gram, (the Italian 
translation by Bartoli and Braun), p. 27, bottom). 
