Romagnolo fe(r) e’ curdo(n) ‘fare le fusa’

• Daniele Baglioni ^[1]
  1. [1] Ca Foscari University of Venice

     Ca Foscari University of Venice

     Venezia, Italia

     
• Localización: Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, ISSN-e 1865-9063, ISSN 0049-8661, Vol. 134, Nº 2, 2018, págs. 533-540
• Idioma: italiano
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  • 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.