Really? Then it's as in Old Castilian. Apparently it comes from the fact that in the past people really raised the table after meals, to take it to a different place of the room. :)
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lol... I was imagining something like this.
http://img.desmotivaciones.es/201208..._1600x1200.jpg
pero que brutos son los lusos :wohoo:
Surprisingly, in venetian and eastern lombard the word for ''fork'' is ''piirù''.
Even the most famous song from Bergamo has a stanza that say: ''Nòter de Berghem, de Berghem de sùra, a la forchetta 'l gha dis ol piirù'' (we people from Bergamo, from the high part of the city (Berghem de sùra, the high citadel...the lower part of the city is Berghèm de sòta), instead of forchetta we say piirù'')
yes indeed, a lot, almost all words that in Latin began with V in Sardinian have a B
here some example, from Latin to Sardinian
videre - bìdere (to see)
vitrum - bidru (glass)
viridem - bìrde (green)
vocem - bòghe (voice)
veranum - beranu (spring)
vetus - betzu (old)
vallem - badde (valley)
vena - bena (source)
verus - beru (true)
vincere - bìnchere (to win)
valentem - balente (courageous)
I think it's passed to venetian from greek ''piiruni'' (venetians controlled many greek islands and even part of the balkanic/greek coasts for centuries...the Stàto da mar), and then the word passed to eastern lombard (East Lombardy was for century part of the Stàto da tera of the venetian republic)