Friûl has taken another blow due to bad weather: Il Friûl al à cjapât un altri scufiot par cause dal maltimp. A storm has struck Friûl (un temporâl al à batût il Friûl) with strong wind (cun aiaron) and heavy rainfall (ploiis fuartis). It caused flooding (inagaments), landslides (slacs) and broken trees (arbui crevâts). Streams overflowed (i torints a son lâts fûr), causing flooding in numerous houses (provocant inagaments in cetantis cjasis). In the image below, firemen are picking up the branches (i pompîrs a stan cjapant sù i ramaçs) from the broken trees (dai arbui crevâts) that are blocking the road (che a blochin la strade).
The masculine noun scufiot refers literally to a slap, a blow given with an open hand. Example: Mi soi sveât masse tart e mê mari mi à dât un pâr di scufiots. (I woke up too late and my mother gave me a pair of slaps.) In reference to the news from above, we understand that, according to the Friulian wording, what Friûl took from the storm was a slap, which is a lively way of saying that it took a hit. If un scufiot is a blow given with an open hand (un colp dât cu la man vierte), then a blow given with a closed hand (un colp dât cu la man sierade) is un pugn. Example: I à tirât un pugn tal voli. (He gave him a punch in the eye.) As for the streams mentioned above, we read that they overflowed: a son lâts fûr (literally, ‘they went out’, which is to say that they breached their banks).
Friulian conversation: To warm someone of an impending danger, you can say: Ocjo! Example: Ocjo, il ramaç al sta par colâ! (Look out, the branch is about to fall!) You can also use: Atent! Example: Sta atent là che tu metis i pîts! (Watch your step!) This last example is said to a male; it must change for number and gender, accordingly: stait atents là che metês i pîts (said to more than one person, where at least one male is present); sta atente là che tu metis i pîts (said to a female); stait atentis là che metês i pîts (said to more than one female, no males present). To tell someone to call for help, you can use the following: Clame i socors! (Call for help!); Clame i pompîrs! (Call the firemen!); Clame i carabinîrs! (Call the carabinîrs!). Clame (second-person singular) is said to just one person; if said to more than one person, then clamait (second-person plural) is used. Remember this emergency number (numar di emergjence): 112.