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(in Sacchetti; from OHGerm. kawa, through Old French 
choete, modern chouette), now reduced to civetta,—see §85. 
52. Miscellaneous. —Ainino (“carta ainina” in Jacopone, 
““eartapecora”), from agnlnu-, is a dialectal development 
(cf. the development of -agine- to -aina) 1 . For gennaio, see 
M. -L., Ital. Gram., §130, and Grober ALL III 142; the form 
gianuario is learned. Gesmino, from Persian jasemin, is per¬ 
haps the same case as gennaio. The forms- aitale and aiqquanto 
suggest at once Provencal, but the second is a peasant word, so 
that perhaps they are both dialectal developments of the same 
nature as the Provengal, -cf. also the northern form maitino, 
for mattino 2 . Armoraccio, for ramolaecio, is a shift of letters 
due to the R (and harmony of R-L to R-R), -cf. § 24, note 4. 
Trebuco is probably from the French, -cf. trehuchet, same 
meaning; trahucco arose by the analogy of traboccare. Emiro, 
from Arabic amir, perhaps goes back to French also, -cf. Eng¬ 
lish emir, ameer, and admiral. Taupino, for tapino (from 
ra7T€tvos), may have been produced by confusion with the 
cases mentioned in §§72 and 67 end,—as for example, cano- 
scere and caunoscere were current, so tapino and taupino 3 . The 
double forms rabarbaro, reubarbaro, and rapontico, reupontico, 
have double etyma in ra- and reu-. Ilzamento (==alzamento), 
used by Ser Zucchero Bencivenni in his “Esposizione del Pater 
Roster e delPAve Maria” and registered by Petrocehi and 
Searabelli, is perhaps an error? Raugunare (Tavola Ritonda) 
is apparently a mixture of ragunare and raunare. 4 
O 5 L T IT 
53. Classic Latin O O U> Vulgab Latin O (close or . 
closing). 
54. Classic Latin U> Vulgab Latin U (close). 
§52. Note 1. M.-L,., Gram. d. L. R., I, §295. 
2. Cf. Bianchi, Dial, di CittS, di Castello, 1888, p. 32, remark. 
3. Cf. Wiese, Altitalienisches Elementarbuch, §42 (2)? “Taupini” in 
an old Pisa-Lucca codex—see Barbi, in the Raccolta D’ Ancona p. 244, 
“taupinella . . . gente” at Cortona, in tbe province of Arezzo in 
an old document,—see Mazzoni, Prop. 2a ser., II, III. 
4. See §83. 
