I’d like to talk. I tried learning Italian and I realized that the pronunciations didn’t seem correct. These were used primarily amongst friends to insult each other. -ge) (vulgar) fart. The slang / dialect word for toilet is ( pisciaturo ) I don’t know if this thread/site is still active or open, but if so, can anyone shed some light on this for me? Good work! In the 19th and early 20th century they were sort of like Italy’s Texas oil barrons. IPA: /smɔːl/- en Rhymes: -ɔːl (Amer. bravi! I was raised in an Italian family (Naples & Sorrento) and my grandmother made them. Don’t pile on redundant suffixes that mean the same thing as -esque (e.g., “picturesque-like”). Are you sure you’re not confusing this with, “stunad”, meaning out of it, dazed? I think it might have been because Sicily was, at one time, almost like a penal colony. Even though your relatives were Calabrese, it seems the pronunciations are the same as my family from Naples & Sorrento. Oh, thank you for this! My grandmother would say ” your mother don’t want macaroni she wants the cheche”.at family gatherings when looking for the meat we say where’s the cheche.the cheche was a once a year treat for my grandmother growing up in avellino. This is great, my Papa came from Sicily & and Mama’s family from Italy. No if you going to parts of southern Italy, 90% of the wording would be still be understood by the older generation. That’s the spatter that happens when you’re frying bacon. If you add peppers drop them in the boiling vinegar. It’s something like “scia bid'” or maybe “scia vid” (b’s and v’s tend to sound similar). Then I saw “gandeen” – in the basement.Possible “but/hand in the basement”? For example – “gar-bi-che” (for “garbage”) yard-a (for “yard”) and “bassa-men-to” for “basement”). Cin daiu. I was not aware that -ucci means “descendant of” until now, but the -i ending indicates masculine plural (changed from the -o of masculine singular). It’s like having my grandmother here with me. I studied French, Italian and Spanish. English words for the Italian word schiacciare SCHIACCIARE = Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. – bobba-lawks (cobwebs) – what are you doing? Dove sono andati? Most of this is Napolitano or Siciliano dialect, and would most certainly be understood in the south. I thought he made them up. – scoom-bah-dee (ashamed, embarrased) Not in my neighborhood. Lots of fun and great memories. One of my favorites. – bombaleeth (drunk) (with the “th” like the, a dead stop.) Ok, here’s one for the books. I appreciate your work, my wife now has a better understanding of some of the things my Dad says! Adverbs and Functional Heads: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective Grazie a tutti coloro che sono venuti prima di noi e non dimenticate mai da dove vengono! I guess yachetone is midway between english and italian! In this example, (iett’ u sang’ – as a calabrese would pronouce it), litterally is “to throw away the blood”, in the meaning of “to have one’s blood suck it away from oneself. Anyone know what the word “camma-nooch” means in “The Godfather”? Everyone I’ve ever known was either Neopalitan (I always thought the spelling was Napolitan, and yes, I do know how to pronounce it. I don’t have cable, so I don’t know if any of these were used on the Sopranos, LOL. oh goodness thank you for this. For example, a champagne brunch with fingertip sandwiches would be a mangia-cake party. Or “butt”? – skee-votes (eww, something gross, a verb) For those who are referring to Sicilian words as “dialect” I urge you to do research about your ancestral history which is not taught in the US schools. It’s all shaquad!” (At which point, one of her students–a recent transfer from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina–said, “Hey! (che cazzo fai?) finally my friend said ohhh you mean a sieve… this might be a litle silly,but that memory has stuck with me because it reminded me that as americanized as my family had become, our heritage, our customs were still part of our upbringing, even if it was just in a word or two, Love this list! Oh, and Sicily was, like Naples, part of (classical) Greece for centuries. Found inside – Page 10474 , points out that the celerative aspect suffix can either mean " quickly " or " early . ... But the order of the corresponding adverbs of Italian would seem to suggest that they are higher than Aspcompletive ( II ) : ( 89 ) a . A bestseller and major prizewinner in Italy, A Fortune-Teller Told Me is a powerful warning against the new missionaries of materialism. We played Brisco and Scoppa too and we learned all the tricky ways of cheating and signaling your partner too. Ciao Linda: I’m originally for East Boston. My aunt in Schenectady, NY still makes it! Your questions relate to a spoken Italian dialect. Just a couple hours ago my Irish nephew called me from upstate New York to ask “Uncle Joe, how do you spell ‘Gomba’?” We both turned on the computers and found HERE that the correct spelling is GOOMBA. Suffix His reaction was “What? Often added to native of Latin origin, yet used with other words also. My mom used to sing this to me when I was very little. I’m anxious to see any and all updates. semplicemente bellissimo. “It’s male di cuah.” Anyone else remember this or know what the last word was (I know “male di”)? Just my take on your interesting question. I was reared in Wildwood, N.J. and my family used almost every slang you mentioned. One with salami pepperoni and cheese inside (like calzone) and one with no filling, just fried with tomato sauce on top. Also, poo-peed-ah-me-ah or puppida Mia, basically a term of endearment ð. He had blue eyes and blonde hair. When I hear southern dialect spoken I feel it in the heart and in my memory. She would tell us we were all sha-woo-dad and then straighted our clothing. I may be mistaken about that, but that is what my grandfather used to tell me. I see a similar one above, but not exact. Favorite word as a kid growing up, my old man would say LA-SOO-YEE, telling my mom to leave him alone! we said it too. He was from Rome.. My grandma used to say fazzaneegol ,I spelled it out how it sounded when she said it) for basil.she was from avellino . Hey, maybe it was the Bronx/Yonkers version LOL!!! Could Jane be a bastardized version of Gianni, as in let’s go, Johnny? If you keep repeating andiamoci over and over, focusing on what you hear rather than the what letters you see written you will find that it is not a big leap to think that the last part of the word sounded like “Jane”. 1. So awesome when people get down to brass tacks and get this on the Internet. Italian: Come ti chiami? Darlene, I knew how to phonetically say fart in middle class italian [scoreggio] and in sicilian it is [pirito]. Upper class italian It makes sense as Sicily is closer to Tunisia than Rome, 3 hours via boat.The Sicilian language is considered an actual language, not dialect, by linguists. Correct my second possibility which would be “HALF SAID” = META DI DETTA. She referred to EAT THE CHECHE, eat the meat. My nona used to yell that at my brother whenever heâd sneak her Livfesaver candies! Your website provided us useful details in order to work on. Yes, It’s probably Carminuccio, which is a diminutive or nickname for Carmine. As I understand it, a person describing another as a “morto di fame” is not wishing for that person to die from hunger. When they asked to use the toilet facilities, they were told it was in the “back of the house.” This phrase was Italianized and became the word, “baccahous”. Words by Pat Eggleton. So where I have a G, may be a C, etc. I use scola a pasta all the time. But the words he used (Forgive Spelling) was Sanguemi sanutsumi sanguemi. ACIDO–AH-CHEE-DOE=ACID STOMACH Names can have a diminutive ending, but so can other words. Because the main thing that all of you have to know is that all this expressions come from varius dialects of southern Italy (Napoletano-from Naples, Calabrese-frommCalabria, and Siciliano-from Sicily). There were others but can’t remember them right now. They really had the most colorful curses. (vedi la ciunca?) the village Eng.) Another observation – kez a deech Whaddya say as a greeting. – watch out, you’re gonna get hurt! One thing to keep in mind is that there are at least three origins of the “Italian” language; the “proper” Italian, dialect specific to each region/municipality, and the bastardization of dialect we usually call Italian-American; which is the subject of this thread. Rege mangia l’ove (“The king eats eggs”?!) When Clemenza discovered there wasn’t a key under the rung, he said, “Ming-ya”. Try “vedova bianca” (white widow) meaning a woman whose husband was alive but nowhere to be found so she was not entitled to wear a widow’s black. I’ve heard that belief before, but I think a lot of ethnicities believe it. I think Iâm only either 3rd or 4th gen (great grandparents came over in their 20s and had my grandpa), but still hear (as well as use) these from all my family. As a kid in 1950’s New Jersey, my mom, a second generation Italian, would say I had a “magung” face when I was sad (or angry?). Cent’anni is the right spelling in Italian and it means”hundred years” . thank you. ), I got called a “horse’s KNOCK-you” plenty of times (prolly ass or penis? – why, how beautiful! Yes I have but know it from the Italian: Chiarracar(r)one. By the way, thank you for your pronunciation of them as well. The combining form -phage is used like a suffix meaning “a thing that devours.” It is used in many scientific terms, especially in biology. I really never knew it was slang until I was questioned on spelling of certain words. It is not a stretch for someone with limited reading ability to hear Basa Nicol from the intended utterance “basilico” especially when there is universal familiarity with San Nicola (good old St Nick) and Basare (which is a variation of official Italian “baciare” (to kiss). There were so many English words incorporated into not only the Italian language of early immigrants but into the dialects as well. Calabrese dialect: 1. Thanks.. My grandmother used to say (phonetic spelling) “Guanda belle!” Meaning “beautiful one” I think. We use our dialect like we our own language using the language from their town, Gerocarne. Who knows…maybe a reference to a local guy in the old country who was a big shot (bigga shotta). On the other hand, suffix is a group of letters that is added at the end of a base word. My DNA mix is actually the norm for sicily and I also have blue eyes! This was great. – scoos-tha-mahd (eating too much, like a pig) I agree with the comment that this is intended to be a wish for someone to live a long time – 100 years.
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