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PERDIGHE | PERDISCI | PERDIXI

All very rare and decidedly Sardinian, Perdighe has a very small stock in Samugheo in Oristano, Perdisci, slightly less rare, has a small stock in Cagliari and Tortolì in Ogliastra, Perdixi, the rarest, has some rare presence here and there the island. additions provided by Giuseppe Concas PERDIGHE; PERDISCI; PERDIXI: the partridge, from the Latin perdix, from the Greek ?????? (Perdix). The oldest variant of the surname is Perdìxi with the "x" palatal sonic fricative, like the French "j". That becomes hard in the central dialects> perdìke. [in Greek we find the item ???????? (caccabìs) = partridge and the verb ????????? (caccabìzo) = chioccio, schiamazzo, I make the verse of the partridge. The Greek voice has remained in the Sardinian "caccàbiu - deverbale da caccabiài, which recalls the noise of the partridge when it rises in frightened flight - the voice is not contemplated in the DES de Wagner.] The surname is present in the medieval papers of the language and history of Sardinia: one of the signatories of the Peace of Eleonora, LPDE of 1388, is a certain, Perdighi Petro, jurato ville Acene,

Bibliographic source' "L'origine dei cognomi Italianim storia ed etimologia" di E. Rossoni disponibile online su: https://archive.org/


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