Sicilian: paci nun t'avi chiù st'afflittu cori

[Ihsiin]

Hi all. In the song Mi vote e mi rivotu we find the lines: Pi tia nun pozzu ora chiù durmiri / paci nun t'avi chiù st'afflittu cori. The meaning I understand from this is 'For you I cannot sleep now / this afflicted heart has no more peace.'

The thing I don't understand is the use of the second person pronoun in the second line. Why is it paci nun t'avi rather than paci nun avi? Or am I reading it wrong, and is the meaning 'this afflicted heart no longer has you'? If so what is the function of word paci here?

Any help working this out is much appreciated

 

[Kraus]

Hi all. In the song Mi vote e mi rivotu we find the lines: Pi tia nun pozzu ora chiù durmiri / paci nun t'avi chiù st'afflittu cori. The meaning I understand from this is 'For you I cannot sleep now / this afflicted heart has no more peace.'

The thing I don't understand is the use of the second person pronoun in the second line. Why is it paci nun t'avi rather than paci nun avi? Or am I reading it wrong, and is the meaning 'this afflicted heart no longer has you'? If so what is the function of word paci here?

Any help working this out is much appreciated

Your translation is correct; actually the second person pronoun doesn't make sense here, and when searching for the song text, on the web sites reporting it one can find 'nun havi' or (more rarely) 'nun avi', but not 't'avi'.

Just a correction for the first line: "For you now I cannot sleep anymore"

 

[Ihsiin]

Thanks The recording I was listening to certainly had nun t'avi but listening to a number of other recordings, including some older ones, they clearly all have nun avi. I don't know where this t'avi came from but it seems to be erroneous.

 

[bearded]

Hello
Couldn't it be ..nun ci (h)avi chiuù..? Ci avi sounds like 'tchavi'.
In colloquial Italian - and in many dialects - we say 'ci ho' instead of a simple 'ho'. ''Pace non ci ha più questo afflitto cuore''.

 

[Agró]

Hi all. In the song Mi vote e mi rivotu

Mi votu e mi rivotu, certo?

 

[Ihsiin]

Hello
Couldn't it be ..nun ci (h)avi chiuù..? Ci avi sounds like 'tchavi'.
In colloquial Italian - and in many dialects - we say 'ci ho' instead of a simple 'ho'. ''Pace non ci ha più questo afflitto cuore''.

I don't think see, when I hear this particular recording it sounds very clearly like t'avi/t'havi. The recording itself can be heard on YouTube on the video mi votu e mi rivotu uploaded by ascoltasifasera. Please have a listen and tell me what you think.

Mi votu e mi rivotu, certo?

Yes, I'm sorry, I neglected to correct my autocorrect.

 

[bearded]

Please have a listen and tell me what you think.

You are right. I cannot explain the presence of that t.

 

[Pietruzzo]

In salentino dialect, which is similar to Sicilian, we sometimes use " 'nde", ("ne" in Italian). So the singer probably says "paci nu'nd'avi" (pace non ne ha più questo cuore afflitto). In any case it sounds like he knows his Sicilian

 

[winenous]

So the singer probably says "paci nu'nd'avi"

I've just listened to a couple of versions on youtube, and in both cases it certainly sounds like that to me - "d" rather than "t" before "avi".