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Appreğğu (m)

(with) definite article: ? [su?]: s’
➺ remark(s) below

typical melodical figure with a specific structure (type 2)

No identical types known (yet).

Though corresponding with the common Italian music term "arpeggio", it has an entirely different structure (➺ details).

Examples in Weis Bentzon: e²-d²-c²-d² and e²-d²-c²-b¹ (the first 2 notes of either are 16ths, the other two 8ths).
NB: Example(s) to be replaced with staff-notation.

Arpeggio

Sources

Weis Bentzon, Andreas Fridolin: The launeddas: a Sardinian folk music instrument. Copenhagen, 1969, p.64.