Koper's Words in a Manuscript by Anteo Gravisi from 1881

Expressions from A to D

Abstract

The article focuses on selected expressions (A to D) recorded by Anteo Gravisi of Koper in 1881. A pocket dialect dictionary consisting of 100 terms is divided into three sections or columns. The first section records expressions used by the more modest social layer of Koper residents in the late 19th century, followed by words used by wealthier citizens and intellectuals. The author in the third column records the equivalents of the Italian literary language. We were interested in which of the written words were preserved in the century that followed their writing. In the analysis, we relied on the available dialectological material noted in Koper between 1900 and 2020. We compared the analysed expressions with the lexis known to the speakers of the Istrian-Venetian dialect from the neighbouring towns of Izola and Piran. We connected them with their last source, relying on the relevant linguistic literature.