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OF EI> E: meta from meita (medietate-); eta, from eitk 
(in the old language passim, from aevitate- 5 ) ; reta (in the old 
language passim), from reita; se’ (from sex, in such expressions 
as se Volte, secento, semila, etc.) ; me’ (in the old language), 
for meglio; me’ (in Varchi), for mezzo 6 ; me’, from mei (mod¬ 
ern illit., for miei,- “i me’ figlioli”); ne’; de’; be’; que’; tre 
(from trei, probably developing when used in unaccented posi¬ 
tion, but then there is re, from rei 7 ); e’ (<ei <egli <elli) ; 
che, for che i (common in early prose) ; and examples in Fu- 
cini like the following, avre’ fatto, vorre ’dare, che sare ’morto, 
avre’dato, perche’l mi’cane, neanche’n palazzo Pitti, etc. 
OF 0I>0: vo’ (from voi<vogl’ <voglio, in combinations 
like voglio fare) ; po’ (as in “po’poi”) ; omai (from oimai, 
—hodiemagis 8 ) ; co’, for coi; (tra) cotanza (^13 tk and 14th cen¬ 
turies),-cf. tracoitato (obsolete); ome, from o (h) ime (in Fre- 
scobaldi, Pulci, Bocc., “chiamava gli omei,” ISTinfale Fies., Ill 
11); no’ (modern popular, “no’si diceva,” “no’s’era”; noaltri, 
voaltri, peasant) ; lo’mperatore, lo’ncenso, etc. (very common 
formerly) ; in Fucini, “quando’l mi’ figlio,” “che e vero che 
vo’discorrereste volentieri colla mi’ Stella.” 
OF UI >IJ; su’ (“su’primi tempi”) ; Guglielmo, for Gui- 
gliemlo; piu, for p-iui (in unaccented position, as in piui bello> 
piu hello) ; vu’ (for vui, peasant form for voi,- “Vu’sapessi !” 9 ). 
OF IA> I: sciliva (from scialiva <saliva) 10 ; scipidire 
larly, la mastra sala (Andrea da Barbarino), fatti da mastra mano 
(Boccaccio). The usual development under the accent however, Is 
a shift of letters,—cf. madia, aria. 
5. And not aetate-. If the derivation were astate-, there would cer¬ 
tainly be more or less numerous examples of ita, even if the word is 
learned. 
6. Mediu- produces a doublet: 1. mfc-d’u> mezzo; 2. m£-yu> mSio> 
me’;—cf. this §, note 8. 
7. According to Professor Grandgent, possibly from such expres¬ 
sions as re' Filippo, etc. 
8. As mediu- produced a doublet (see this §, note 6), so hodie:- first, 
6-d’e> oggi; secondly, o-ye> oi. 
9. Ua, ue, uo also lose their final vowel when used prosthetically, 
at least colloquially; cf. the following examples from Fucini: della 
su’ moglie, nella su’ casa, la su’ bambina, la tu’ povera mamma, la su’ 
Giuditta, du’ franchi, du’ mesi, du’ ossi, du’ posti, su’ padre, al su* 
cane. 
10. In D’Ancona e Bacci, Manuale della letteratura italiana, new 
Cd., 1903, Vol. 1, p. 104, there is an extract from Jacopone, contain¬ 
ing the word desciliato (from descialivato <de-salivatu-); the not© 
says, "squarciato: da scindere”(!). The meaning is “spat upon”. 
