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- Title
Romagnolo <italic>fe(r) e’ curdo(n)</italic> ‘fare le fusa’.
- Authors
Baglioni, Daniele
- Abstract
In this article the Romagnolo locution fe(r) e’ curdo(n) ‘to purr’ is considered in regard to its etymology. It is argued that the word curdo(n) ‘string’ is a paretymological reinterpretation of burdon ‘burden, drone’, a technical music term designating the lowest course of a lute and, more generally, a uniform bass accompaniment. Hence the locution would have been playfully applied to the purr of cats, whose noise resembles a bass accompaniment because of its low pitch and assiduity.
- Subjects
DIALECT literature; ETYMOLOGY; INTONATION (Phonetics); ITALIAN language; SEMANTICS
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie, 2018, Vol 134, Issue 2, p533
- ISSN
0049-8661
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1515/zrp-2018-0031