A powerful storm has struck Friûl, with large hailstones causing damage. The Friulian for hail pellet is: un grignel di tampieste; in some cases, as we read below, the pellets were described as being like stones (come claps), on account of their large size. For readability, the report below has been modified slightly from its original version; to read the original, follow the link leading back to the Vôs website, at the end of the report.
Maltimp, grignei di tampieste come claps tal Friûl Ocidentâl: Magari cussì no lis previsions dal timp a àn induvinât ancje cheste volte, e si è scjadenade une tampiestade fuarte che e à fat dams. Mancul di chel che si veve pôre, tant plui che la Protezion civîl e veve pandût la alerte zale, ma dut câs îr di sere di Sacîl e fintremai a Çopule, passant par Cjanive, Brugnere, Fontanefrede e Pordenon, a àn tacat a vignî jù grignei di tampieste bogns di fâ dams. In cierts câs si fevele adiriture di «claps» plui grancj di dîs centimetris di diametri. Par fortune la tampieste e à batût e fat dams soredut tai cjamps, ma al tocje meti in cont ancje i miârs di saetis che a son vignudis jù. Di cualchi bande a son stadis buinis di impiâ fûcs, come a Resie intun bosc, a Vildivar indulà che al à cjapât fûc un cuviert di len intune palacine o a Vilès intun capanon. Temporâi fuarts un pôc par dut, che a àn batût soredut il Friûl di mieç, ma ancje la cueste e il teritori di Gurize e Monfalcon, cun dams causâts soredut dai inagaments e dal aiaron che al à sdrumât arbui e lampions. Lis segnalazions ae sale operative de Protezion civîl a son rivadis par dute la gnot. Tant lavôr pai Vigjii dal Fûc di mieze regjon, che a àn fat almancul setante intervents des vot di sere di îr aes vot di matine di vuê. / Riferiment: La Vôs dai Furlans.
Bad weather, hail pellets like stones in Western Friûl: Unfortunately, the weather forecasts guessed right also this time, and a powerful hailstorm broke out that caused damage. Less severe than feared, especially since the Civil Protection had issued a yellow alert, but even so, yesterday evening from Sacîl to Çopule, passing through Cjanive, Brugnere, Fontanefrede and Pordenon, hail pellets capable of causing damage began to fall. In some cases, reports were of “stones” larger than ten centimetres in diameter. Fortunately, the hail mainly struck and caused damage in fields, but we must also consider the thousands of lightning bolts that came down. In some places, they were capable of starting fires, such as in Resie in a forest, in Vildivar where a wooden roof in a building caught fire or in Vilès in a shed. Intense storms almost everywhere, striking particularly central Friûl, but also the coast and the areas of Gurize and Monfalcon, with damage caused mainly by flooding and by strong wind that toppled trees and lightposts. Reports to the Civil Protection operations centre came in throughout the night. Much work for the fire brigade of the central region, which carried out at least seventy interventions from eight o’clock yesterday evening to eight o’clock this morning.
Friulian vocabulary
- il maltimp, bad weather
- la tampieste, hail
- un grignel di tampieste, a hail pellet
- une tampiestade, a hailstorm
- un clap, a stone
- une prevision dal timp, a weather forecast
- induvinâ, to guess right
- scjadenâsi, to break out
- fâ dams, to cause damage
- une alerte, an alert
- zâl, yellow
- un cjamp, a field
- un miâr, about a thousand
- une saete, a lightning bolt
- impiâ il fûc, to start a fire
- un bosc, a forest
- un cuviert di len, a wooden roof
- une palacine, a building
- un capanon, a shed
- un temporâl, a storm
- un pôc par dut, almost everywhere
- bati, to strike, to hit
- une cueste, a coast
- un inagament, a flood, flooding
- un aiaron, a strong wind
- sdrumâ, to topple
- un arbul, a tree
- un lampion, a lightpost
- la sale operative, the operations centre
Un temporâl: a storm; with lightning, thunder and rain (lamps, tons e ploie). Il maltimp (or: il tristimp): bad, inclement weather, but also storm.
La tampieste: hail. Un grignel di tampieste: a hail pellet. Une tampiestade: a hailstorm. To be clear, a hailstorm (tampiestade) is formed of a downfall of hail (tampieste), which is formed of individual hail pellets (grignei di tampieste).
Mancul di chel che si veve pôre: less severe than feared. Understood literally: mancul (less) di chel (than that) che (whereof) si veve pôre (one had fear).
Un clap: a stone; pronounced just as written, but plural claps sounds like clâs (silent p and long â). By long â, what is meant is the vowel is held longer than the short a of the singular: clap/clâs.
Bogns di fâ dams: capable of causing damage. Bogns is the masculine plural of bon; the four forms of this adjective are: bon (masculine singular); bogns (masculine plural); buine (feminine singular); buinis (feminine plural). Bon not only means good, but also able, capable. Another example: o soi bon di cori plui svelt di te (I can {I am able to} run faster than you).
Une saete: a lighting bolt. In a recent fake news report in Friulian, we encountered the masculine fulmin, also identifying a lightning bolt. Pronunciation: saète, fùlmin.
What can you say in Friulian about the scene depicted in the photograph below, taken during the aftermath of the storm?
Friulian pronunciation
Tonic stress falls on the syllable marked by an accent in the following words: grignèl, tampièste, centìmetri, diàmetri, saète, capanòn, aiaròn, àrbul, lampiòn. See the note above regarding the pronunciation of clap in the singular and plural.
Supplementary reading in Friulian
Read a few more sentences in Friulian on the subject of inclement weather.
A son lâts indenant par dute la gnot i intervents dai pompîrs par cause dai dams provocâts dal temporâl, cuntune vore di inagaments e aiaron, e in cierts câs ancje trombis di aiar, che a àn tirât jù arbui e cuvierts. A son rivâts daurman i pompîrs par un fûc impiât di une saete intun cjamp. Sul cricâ dal dì un ramaç grues al è adiriture colât suntune machine.
The firemen’s interventions went on all night due to the damage caused by the storm, with a lot of flooding and strong wind, and in some cases even tornadoes, which knocked down trees and roofs. The firemen arrived immediately for a fire started by a lightning bolt in a field. At the crack of dawn, a thick branch even fell onto a car.