Abstract

The Ladin language of Marebbe and Badia Valley is characterised by the feminizing suffix -ia, which denotes feminine gender in adjectives or denotes females in nouns, and is foreign to all other Ladin idioms. This article argues that not all words containing this suffix can be grouped together. While, for exam-ple, superbia “a girl obsessed with dressing up” is a conversion of a feminine adjective, doturia “female doctor or the doctor’s wife” was presumably formed in analogy to the Venetian term capitania “wife of the provincial governor”. Both examples are borrowed from Veneto.

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