Triestine Dialect - Sample Vocabulary of The Triestin Dialect

Sample Vocabulary of The Triestin Dialect

Triestine Dalmatian Italian English
piròn pirun forchetta fork
carèga katriga sedia chair
scovàze škovace immondizia rubbish
mona mona, crazy person monàda, stupid-crazy act of one person
  1. vagina (sost.)
  2. stupido (agg.)
  1. vagina (n)
  2. silly (adj.)
impizàr accendere to light
lugàniga luganige salsiccia sausage
spagnolèto sigaretta cigarette

Read more about this topic:  Triestine Dialect

Famous quotes containing the words sample, vocabulary and/or dialect:

    “All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it—an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.”
    —Peter Conrad (b. 1948)

    “The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.”
    —Marina Warner (b. 1946)

    “The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)