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Dainetto (work in progress)

Source: 
Italian sources, c.1550-c.1620
Translation of name: 
Diminutive of 'daino', fallow deer?
Discussion: 

This step is used by Lupi but not defined. So "reconstruction" is a matter of sifting out what information we have from where and how the step is used, and then making a genre-appropriate guess.

Below is a bare beginning only - running notes (that I wish I'd begun keeping in writing long ago!) on what we can deduce. 

Dictionary - Florio 

  • Daina, a Doe. Also a Doe-faune.
  • Daino, a Faune, a Pricket, a sore, a sorrell, a Bucke, a Fallow-deare.

What can we deduce?

  • may evoke a movement made by fallow deer

Modern use of similar word - dainetto

Now, dainetto is a soft, napped type of fabric. Cf. 'doeskin' or 'buckskin'?

Lupi's Canario

  • man's first mutanza
    • sei dainetti schisati, e passetti finti a man manci l'istessi dainetti, e passetti finti a man dritta - six sliding(?) dainetti, a little feigned steps to the left hand the same dainetti and little feigned steps to the right hand
Reconstruction: 

Movement

  • can be done schisati - sliding
  • so some element is on the ground (it's not a jump, or not entirely, or can be altered)
  • can do several in a row, even 6
  • can do to the side (or turning?)

Use

Canario mutanze for a man. (And elsewhere?)

 

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