Vlaški/Žejanski/Istro-Romanian – Croatian Dictionary
cmálim
(i: χmálim) pril. (Ž)
odmah, smjesta; cmálim voi̭ i̭í cân sórele zai̭díre - smjesta ću ići kada sunce zađe.
co de
prijedl. izraz (Ž)
oko, okolo; pokraj, pored; blizu; oví se co de ɣút - oviti se oko vrata (grla); co de zíd - pokraj zida, blizu zida; číre av co de i̭å trecút? - tko je prošao pored nje?; co de i̭é cuvintå - govoriti u njegovoj blizini.
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.
