Glossary

Here we leave you some basic vocabulary for your stay:

  • Abondo: a lot, quite a bit
  • to esgaya: a lot
  • Afayadizu: That it is pleasant to be in
  • Amagüestu: Traditional festival
  • Antroxu: carnival
  • Caleya: narrow and short alley or street
  • windlass: bar
  • Chiscar: splash
  • Duernu: container where the apple juice is collected when pressed. The cider’of sleep‘is the juice resulting from pressing the apple.
  • Bore: push
  • Escamplar: clear, disappear the clouds from the sky
  • Esfamiáu: very hungry
  • Spicha: Action of opening a barrel of cider. Because it applies to any party, snack where cider is the main drink.
  • Fame: hunger
  • fartucar: eat a lot, get full
  • Folixa: party
  • Foriatu: stranger
  • Line: Eat while drinking or before drinking to contain the effects of alcohol or to not feel hungry for a long time
  • Frixuelos: crepe
  • Gabitu (lend a): lend a hand
  • Guaje: boy
  • Home: man
  • Mancar: do harm
  • March: leave
  • Mozu/a: boyfriend/girlfriend
  • Woman: women
  • Orbayu: drizzle
  • Oricios: hedgehogs
  • Chop: knock on the door or bell
  • squid: pot
  • Prau: meadow
  • pregnant: stuffed
  • Lend: please, like
  • Roller: kitchen cloth
  • Tendal: clothesline
  • Uvieu: Oviedo
  • Xareu: fuss, party
  • Xixón: Gijón

Additionally, you have to keep these tips in mind:

  • If they call you bobbin either coil, don’t be angry. More than an insult, it is affectionate. Be worried if they call you babayu.
  • If they call you life either vidina Don’t think they are trying to flirt with you. It is a loving way of addressing people, even if we don’t know them.
  • Don’t think it’s bad if you hear ‘Wow you are so fit today!‘. It’s not that it’s disgusting, but that you’re having a bad day.
  • Here we finish everything in -in either -ina. It has nothing to do with size. It’s just to make it more ours. It even helps us to include the ‘please’: Can you give me a coffee?
  • Although here in Gijón/XixónAs we are big, too we use the augmentative a lot. Look: the Escalerona, the Molinón, the Iglesiona, the Acerona, the Fabricona, les Letrones…
  • By the way, it is sidrina. Not ‘sidriña’! And, you may have noticed, We put the pronouns at the end and always use the simple past: did you understand?
  • Attentive! The masculine singular is -or, the plural is -you. And in the feminine the singular is -to and the plural -is. ‘cow‘ and ‘fabe‘ they do not exist. Is cow and bean. Plural: cows and Fabes
  • Some may not have much of an accent, but you will notice that Asturian YE, because Y.E.: what time is it?; where are you? how handsome ye!; Ye what’s there!..
  • everything is beautiful. The bonito is a fish.
  • For emphasis, we end the sentences in Ho!, which is the abbreviation of home (man). You can also hear ¡Ne! In the end if you are a woman.
  • go see the whale‘ is not an invitation to a tourist attraction to observe wildlife. They are sending you for a walk.
  • Ah! And if there is something that we like, but at the same time it is endearing to us, we say that lends us or what ye prestosu.
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