Vlaški/Žejanski/Istro-Romanian – Croatian Dictionary
corb
-u, -i m (S, N)
gavran (rijetko: vrana); i̭e şcúro ca şi córbu (Ž) - tamno je kao gavran (češće: i̭e şcúro ca şi ân córn (Ž) - tamno je kao u rogu).
coríst
-a ž (S, Ž)
korist; cúma coríst avém nói̭ de čå? (Ž) - kakvu mi od toga imamo korist?
córistân
córisna pridj.
koristan; ói̭a-i̭ i̭åco córisna (Ž) - ovca je vrlo korisna.
corítę
-a (S, B), coríta (Ž) ž
korito; coríta dénde pórcu marấŋkę (S) - korito iz kojega svinja jede; coríta de pórč (Ž) - kopanja (korito) za svinje; coríta i̭úva se pấra misę́ (Ž) - korito u kojemu se mijesi [tijesto] za kruh (naćve).
corn
-u, -e, -ele dvorod (S, N), m (Ž)
rog; kvrga (S, N); Ž: trnina; dråcu cu córne (Ž) - vrag s rogovima; arę́te fâr de córne (Ž) - ovan bez rogova; córnu pre cåp (S), córnu ân cåp (N) - kvrga na glavi; izraz: i̭e şcúro ca şi ân corn (Ž) - tamno je kao u rogu; (pored: i̭e şcúro ca şi córbu (Ž) - tamno je kao gavran).
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.
