Kaliarda XXXIV: Miscellanea from Kaliarda

The following words mainly illustrate the interesting ways Kaliarda implements its schematicism:

aðelfula

cat: “little sissy” (gays identifying with cats)

anemoviva

soul: “wind life”

adikotos

distant: “un-seen”

astedupuros

director: “‘That’s how I want it!’ old man” < Arvanitika është dua “that’s how I want it” (also used in mainstream slang)

atsarðo

countryside: “houseless”

axatozo

interior, Greece: “here-ness”

axatobenama

gesture, signal: “here saying” (“hither signal”)

virdzinoskriva

stenography: “virgin writing”

ɣiðaru

wandering seller of greens: “goat chick” (since goats eat greens)

ɡuda dzorna

Good Day (English + Italian)

ɣorɣori

slap < “swift”

ɡrifopsipsizo

to scratch: “nail pussycat”

ɡrosokuakis

frog: “large quack” (note that the Greek onomatopoeia for frogs is koaks)

ɣuɣuloxalo

to bite: “wolf eat”

ɣrasiðopaɡru

cotton: “grass fleece”

ɣirozaru

casino: “go-around dice chick” (alluding to roulette)

ðantela

binding, knot < “lace”, hence ðanteliazo “to tie”

ðikelomantio

window, cinema: “looks oracle” (because seeing through window or cinema lets you know something far from your physical presence?)

iðolo

striking makeup < “idol”; iðoliazo “to portray”

zuzunosoɣi

candle: “bug light” (i.e. light using an insect product, wax)

imandes baka

sister: “our belly”, i.e. “from the same belly”

kanɡurosalo, kanɡurosoliasma

snot: “nose saliva”

kapaki

cap (headgear) < “cap, lid” (the conflation is alien to mainstream Greek)

kart-kaliard

photograph: “card ugly”, in pseudo-French, by analogy with kart-postal “postcard”, kart-vizit “calling card”

keriazo

to melt: “to candle”

kokaloviviazome

to die: “bone live” (cf. Standard meno kokalo “to stay bone = to be stunned”)

kokalomutsuna

pose: “bone face” (again, in the notion of someone stunned)

kolkana

coquettish: “arse leg” (from how she walks)

kolotsitsirizo

to torment: “arse singe”; hence kolotsitsiri “pest”

komatoksilu

card playing: “piece of wood”

kula de pari

bullshit!: “shit of Paris” (in pseudo-French)

kunelokreatakis

soft to the touch: “rabbit meat”

lakˈrimo

rain < ˈlakrimo “tears”

latsoðikelma

meeting again: “good seeing”; sto latsoðikelma “see you soon”

latsodup

massage: “good beating”

luaxatozo

abroad: “there-ness”

madam benavia

chat < benavo “to talk”

molomuxlo

vinegar: “mold water”

musandodup

threat: “fake beating”

mustakolesu

brush: “mustache filth chick”

mus-flori

nylon: “fake flower” (from plastic flowers)

baloɣuɣulfo

bear: “fat wolf”

balokarna

cow: “fat beef”

balofusfusis

elephant: “fat fus-fus” (onomatopoeia for trunk? fus-fus means “train”)

baloxorxora

bomb: “big fire”

dulotsarðo

mansion: “rich hut”, but basdulotsarðo “chief rich hit” = “bank”

bilokomondi

cherry: “tomato marbles”

bladosfinaki

mosquito, gnat, bedbug: “blood wedge”

bon kates

Mister (used as title), (rarely) sir!: “that good one”; fem. bon kate “Mrs”, (almost never) “madam!”

burobutoni

doorbell: “singing button”

butotekna

school: “very children”

damiradamis

blood brother, close friend: “hashish blood-brother” (both from Koutsavakika)

dikostos

teacher < dik “look!” or “opposite”

duranasama

courage: “hard breathing”

ksekifino

work: “un-drone”

ksekolupsa

farewell: “unstuck + byebye!”

ksenokudzinos

cousin: “stranger brother” (kudzinos comes from Italian cugino “cousin”, but means “brother” in Kaliarda)

ksinospiru

lemon: “sour seed”

paksimaðiazo

to soften: “to rusk” (because rusks were softened in water to make them edible)

pisketoɣutsa

second (of time): “kid hour” (literally “biscuit watch”)

plataxronos

the past: “wide, flat (?) time”

purke de skende?

why should that happen? Pseudo-French (pourquoi “why”)

presoɣotsaro

to delay: “to press the watch”; sbroxtoɣotsi “shove watch” = “delay”

rizotsarðo

foundations: “hut root”

rizofitros

deep: “rice planting”

rozofuska

tomato: “red balloon”

rosomolo

vodka: “Russian drink”

siðeromol

steam engine: “iron water”

sik ala tsai nanai

very politely (pseudo-foreign)

sik ranse

great dignity: chic rangé “dignified chic”

skampazokuto

tape recorder: “know-how box”

skiorampo

cimena: “shadow stage”

skilosvolo

worry beads: “dog ball” (Koutsavakika “dog” = “tough guy”)

skilosteki

café: “dog hangout” (Koutsavakika “dog” = “tough guy”)

sukrovaizo

chocolate: “black sugar”

sukrozuzuni

bee: “sugar bug”

suravli

cable: “flute”

susta

nerve: “spring” (springs proper are called sinda)

spasiba

expulsion: Koutsavakika spase! “break” = “get lost”, conflated with Russian spasiba “thank you”

staroafru

beer: “wheat foamer”

staromol

beer: “wheat drink”

stenoxoro

ring: “tight”

latsokazanto

fortune: “good ending-up”

stravokazantia

povery: “crooked ending-up”

strofolinga

translation: “turn language”

strofopensaro

to regret: “turn think”

sferoklaru

billiards: “balls twig” (i.e. billiard balls and cue stick)

sfina

“wedge”, extended to any sharp object (e.g. needle, key)

sfinofera

shovel: “iron wedge”

tapsi

mirror: “baking dish”

teknoɣutsa

minute: “hour child”

teknoskrivu

note: “writing child”

teknoskrudza

thumbtack: “screw child”

teroɣonia

step in staircase: “land angle”

dzornoɣiros

year: “day cycle”

dzornokiklos

watch: “day circle”

trixoberdes

cloth: “hair curtain” (?)

tsarukosok

hiccup: “larynx shock”

tsitoxaus

smile: “stretch mouth”

fiɣiozo

notebook: “leaf-full”

fonokuskus

telephone: “voice gossip”; hence fonokuskusolista “telephone list” = “phone catalogue”, fonokuskus komandaris “telephone commander” = “head of the telephone company”

xalematobomba

tin of food: “food bomb”

xorxorobladis

fever: “fire blood”

xorxorotrima

spice: “fire powder”

xrisospiru

orange: “golden seed”

*karnosfilatso

sinew, nerve: “flesh rope”