This is the twenty-seventh lesson in our study of the Friulian language using the book Lis predicjis dal muini by Josef Marchet. To download the book and listen to its audio recordings, made available by the Societât Filologjiche Furlane, follow the links in Friulian 1. The commentary below relates to the fourth paragraph of Lis litaniis, which begins with e za timp and ends with cjantâ la Diessile.
COMMENTARY ON THE FRIULIAN
Lis litaniis: paragraph 4, sentence 1.
Vocabulary: za timp (some time ago); capitâ (to befall, to happen); lâ fintremai a (to go all the way to); par vie di (because of, on account of); un mierli (blackbird {simpleton}); un zinar (son-in-law); dissipâsi (to get banged up); lâ ator (to go {drive} about); un moto (motorbike); jessi in briscule (to be plastered-drunk); malandret (damned, cursed); la canaie (youths, kids); Diu (God); perdonâ (to forgive).
E za timp: and some time ago. Mi è capitât di lâ fintremai a Cjasarse: I happened to go all the way to Cjasarse. Mi è capitât translates literally as it befell me, it happened unto me. As for the masculine noun mierli, this identifies a blackbird, but Vigji uses it figuratively here to refer to his son-in-law as a simpleton: par vie di chel mierli di gno zinar (because of that simpleton of a son-in-law of mine). Be reminded that with words identifying family members in the singular, the definite article is omitted before the possessive pronoun: gno zinar (my son-in-law); mê brût (my daughter-in-law); it reappears in the plural: i miei zinars, lis mês brûts. Che si jere dissipât: who had got banged up. Dissipasî can also be used with the word for a body part: si è dissipât il pît (he messed up his foot). Lant ator cul moto: driving about on his motorbike. Lant (going) is the present participle of lâ (to go); the present participle is used when conveying whilst or by, as in: whilst going about, by going about. Cuant che al jere in briscule: when he was plastered. The neutral word for drunk in Friulian is cjoc; its four forms are: cjoc (masculine singular); cjocs (masculine plural); cjoche (feminine singular); cjochis (feminine plural). Here we find instead a colloquial usage: in briscule, meaning plastered-drunk. Malandrete la canaie: damned kids. Che Diu mal perdoni: may God forgive me; literally, may God forgive it unto me, which is to say, may God forgive me for having said it. Consider: Diu al perdone (God forgives); che Diu al perdoni (may God forgive); che Diu lu perdoni (may God forgive it); che Diu mal perdoni (may God forgive it unto me). Mal is the contraction of mi (unto me) and lu (it).
Lis litaniis: paragraph 4, sentence 2.
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Lis litaniis: paragraph 4, sentence 3.
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Lis litaniis: paragraph 4, sentence 4.
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Lis litaniis: paragraph 4, sentence 5.
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Lis litaniis: paragraph 4, sentence 6.
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Lis litaniis: paragraph 4, sentence 7.
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Lis litaniis: paragraph 4, sentence 8.
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Lis litaniis: paragraph 4, sentence 9.
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notes in preparation, to be continued
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