Vlaški/Žejanski/Istro-Romanian – Croatian Dictionary
câtra
prijedl. (S, Ž)
prema, k; prema, naprama; oko, blizu; mę́re câtra cåsę (S) - ići prema kući; i̭élʼ av târlít úr câtra åt (Ž) - oni su (po)trčali jedan prema drugomu; când verír câtra cåsa, voi̭ clʼemå (Ž) - kada dođem blizu kući, zvat ću; câtra sę́ra (Ž) - pod večer (prema večeri).
cavtå
tr. (J, Ž)
gledati (promatrati); pogledati (pogledavati); pripaziti; nastojati; nú cavtå ân úra! (Ž) - nemoj gledati na sat!; i̭å nu vrę́se ân míre ni cavtå (S) - ona ne želi u mene ni gledati; morę́ se bíre cavtå cúm se va lucrå - mora se dobro pripaziti kako će se raditi; i̭e n-av dåt cavtå ničurvę́ (Ž) - on nije dao nikomu gledati; cåvt de i̭å! (Ž) - pazi na nju!; i̭o cåvtu t″åro dimbóco zaorí (B) - ja nastojim zaorati jako duboko; atúnče se cåvta de alę́že (Ž) - tada se nastoji izabrati (izdvojiti).
če
(čé) upitna i odnosna zamj. (Ž, J)
što; upitna čestica - zar; čé víşe mai̭ bíre (Ž) - što više [to] bolje; če nú ştii̭? (Ž) - zar ne znaš?
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.
