Abstract
In this paper, I discuss a set of lexical items which are peculiar to (Old) Eastern Tuscan, at odds with Florentine and standard literary Italian. Some of them, such as incigliare ‘to scutch’, òppio ‘poplar’, póccia ‘breast’, are also common in most dialects of the Area (peri)mediana. Among the words which are widespread throughout Central Italy, it is possible to find a small group that Arezzo shares with the dialect of Rome, such as catòrcio ‘bolt’, déto ‘finger’, lograre ‘to wear out’, ‘to consume’ and Old Aretine mannarino ‘hog’ or ‘suckling pig’ (Modern Romanesco ‘old ox’ or ‘mutton’).
Pesini, Luca