Vlaški/Žejanski/Istro-Romanian – Croatian Dictionary
čåi̭e
-a m (Ž) (gen.-dat.: lu čåi̭a)
otac; lu čåi̭a a fost žå - ocu je bilo žao; ţárstvo lu a lúi̭ čåi̭e - carstvo njegova oca; čåi̭a şi måi̭a - roditelji (otac i mati); v. čåče.
cåi̭er
-u dvorod (N), m (Ž)
hrpa vune, puna preslica (vune iz koje se upreda nit), povjesmo.
calcún
-u dvorod (m) (S)
vranj, čep; me nóno zbít-a calcúnu dim pó de bấţvę - moj djed izbio je vranj iz sredine bačve.
cåle
-a ž (J, Ž)
put; pre cåle - putem, po putu; diŋ cåle cuvintå (Ž) - buncati; i̭e diŋ cåle cuvínta (Ž) - on bunca.
cåleţ
-u m (Ž)
tkalac; cåleţu fåče pấnza pre tấrliţele - tkalac pravi platno na stanu; cåleţu târliţę́ ali ţę́se pấnza - tkalac tka platno.
calí
tr. (Ž)
kaliti; cârbúri se upotreblʼúi̭s de flʼéru calí - (drveni) ugljen se upotrebljava za kaljenje željeza.
camalʼér
-u m (S)
konobar; camalʼéru a verít la şcånd (S) - konobar je došao k stolu.
When searching words, you can paste in accented characters/diacritics, or type the characters with no diacritics. (For example: To find the verb “acaţå” paste in “acaţå” or type in “acata” without the special character ţ and diacritic ˚.) If the word is reflexive, you can leave the “se” off. (For example: If you search for the verb “abåte,” the search will return both the transitive “abåte” and the reflexive “abåte se.”
This is a handy guide for nonspecifics in the graphical system used to write the Vlach or Žejanski (ie, Istrian) language in this dictionary. We provide approximate Croatian and English voice equivalents for the letters most often used in the dictionary.
Diacritics combining with letters for different vowels:
́́´ Marks the placement of the word stress.
˜ Marks a nasalized vowel.
We refer linguists and other specialists to pp. 9-15 and pp. 246-255 of the original print dictionary—Istrorumunjski-hrvatski rječnik (s gramatikom i tekstovima) [insert hyperlink to Bibliography] by August Kovačec—for a detailed and technical introduction to the transcription system used in the dictionary. In the main,Kovačec’s spelling system follows the long, while rather inconsistent, tradition of spelling used by Romanian dialectologists to represent the language, while adding some special symbols to it. There is no standardized and/or agreed upon version of the spelling for the language. Kovčec’s transcription is largely phonological (i.e., it represents only distinctive sounds), but also often indicates characteristic phonetic variations.
