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claims; such exclamations as deddina (cf. a fe di Bio, fedde- 
dio, fediddio, affedibacco, affe dell ’oca, afieddieci, affeddedue, 
et sim.). 
46. Agglutination. —-These cases usually arise from the 
passage of the final A of the definite or indefinite feminine 
article by confusion to the following noun: aasma, for asma 
(unless the speaker had the idea of imitating the difficulty of 
breathing experienced by the patient) ; Acchinea, for Chinea; 
amagione, for magione; amandolino, for mandoline (through 
the form amandola), for mandola 1 ; amarca, for marca; amor- 
tina, for mortina (“mortella,” <myrtus) ; anare (=narice) ; 
apostilla 2 ; avisione 3 ; astola, for stola 4 ; aligusta (and arigusta), 
for ligusta (see §67) ; alloro 5 . 
47. Syncope and Contraction. —Syncope occurred in 
grofano, for garofano, probably through the form gherofano, 
which also existed (from caryopliyllu-; see § 49). The follow¬ 
ing seem to be cases of contraction with a following vowel 1 : 
fogno (~“burrasca di vento con nevischio”), from *faogno 
<favoniu- 2 ; an hypothetical *favillena, from favilla, has given 
§46. Note 1. The history of the word mandola, is obscure; see the 
Oxford Dictionary, under bandore: “ . the Romanic forms show 
much phonetic perversion . . . Italian mandola, pandora, pan- 
dura; all represent Latin pandura, -urium, adapted from TravSovpa 
cf. banjo.” 
2. The derivation of the two forms postilla and apostilla is not cer¬ 
tain,—cf. French apostille, English postil. 
3. Somewhat similarly Old French avertin (vertigine-). 
4. The form aasma might even be dialectic.—cf. M.-L., Gram. d. L. R. 
I, §258; “S. Fratello presente aa pour tout a entrave; aarba, taard, 
paas, daamp, baank, faat, etc.” The forms aposticcio and apostumo, 
rather than being cases of agglutination, are perhaps similar to the 
cases mentioned in §41, note 2. Agglutination with the consonant of 
the definite article appears in latrio, lape, landrone, lanca, lamo, l&ula 
(— Tavola), and possibly also in lazzerolo (cf. lazzo, azzerolo,-M.-L., 
Ital. Gram., §§120, 196). The form amoerre (and less usually amu- 
erre), for moerre, belongs here, also, perhaps; it was apparently bor¬ 
rowed from French moire, which in turn was' taken from English mo¬ 
hair, earlier mockaire, from Arabic mokkayyar,—the word mouaire Is 
in Menage and Chretien has moire. 
5. Laurus was feminine in Latin. Cf. further anvoglia = “invoglio”, 
ansegna,—Pieri, AG XII 145; these are really reductions of AI to A, 
—see §85. 
§47. Note 1. For secondary developments, see §85. 
2. Cf. M.-L., Ital. Gram., §141: “Dem italienischen Lexikon gehort 
fogno aus favonius an, doch ist das Wort nicht toskanisch.” Favonio 
is the' literary form. 
