abé

See also: abe, Abe, ABE, abe', abeʼ, abë, abẹ, åbe, a-be, Abé, and abe-

Old French

Noun

abé m (oblique plural abez, nominative singular abes, nominative plural abé)

  1. abbot

Old Tupi

Adverb

abé

  1. also.

References

  • NAVARRO, E. A. Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil. São Paulo. Global. 2013.

Sassarese

Etymology

From Latin habeō (to have, hold, possess), from Proto-Italic *habēō or *haβēō, probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʰh₁bʰ- (to grab, to take).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈbe/, [aˈβe]

Verb

abé

  1. (auxiliary) to have
  2. (transitive) to have, to possess
    • 1873, Luigi Luciano Bonaparte, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese con osservazioni sulla pronunzia, volume 1, Cagliari, page 69:
      La funelta mimoria
      Di tanti passatempi ch’ eju abia
      The gloomy memory of the many pastimes I used to have
    • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Accannu [This Year]”, in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 55:
      a fammi cumpagnia i la tristhura
      soru abaraggiu chiddu pinsamentu
      e, sobr’a la grundaia, un biddisò.
      To keep me company, in the sadness, I will only have this thought, and – on the gutter – a sparrow.

Conjugation

References

  • Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
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