Kaliarda XXXI: Basic vocabulary

Next, I’m posting the function words of Kaliarda, and other classes of words that indicate how the language works:

Function words:

altros

other < Italian altro

axatos

this (Rom. kathe “here”; Greek a- “un-” + kate “that”?)

emandes

I, me, my (Rom. mande “me”); mandula (diminutive)

esandes, suandes

you, your (Rom. mande “me” + Greek esi “you”); sandula (diminutive)

imandes

we, us, our (< emandes)

isandes

you.pl, your (< esandes)

karafundan

roundabouts, in lower class suburbs (Turkish?)

karbone

together, both < Greek karbon “carbon copy” < French carbon

kates

that (Rom. kathe “here”)

kate-dzorna, statuta-dzorna

today: “this day”

kontrodzorna

tomorrow: “opposite day”

pasioza-dzorna

yesterday: “past day”

katoplaka

“down, to the ground” < “down” + plaka “slab; falling down”

luaxatos

that, that yonder (Italian/French là “there” + axatos?)

me sik

politely, gently (“with chic”); so, well

dan

he, pl. danakati “they.masc” (dan “he” + kate “that”?)

duna

she, pl. danakate “they.fem” (dan “he” + kate “that”?)

duni

it, pl. dunakata “they.neut” (duni + kate “that”?)

dik!, dikos!, duak!

look! < Romani

dik

opposite, next to; with definite article: “the one opposite” < Kaliarda dik! “look!” < Romani

dikotos

nearby < dik “look!” (i.e. “visible”)

dopa

after < Italian dopo

dopa-kontrodzorna

the day after tomorrow: “after opposite day”

otros

other < Spanish otro (if not French autre)

uxu!

hooray! bravo!

upsa!

hi! goodbye!

paradik

next to something opposite: para “next to” + dik

pasioza-dzorna

yesterday: “past day”

prans

nearby: French près “near”?

privos

mine < Italian privato “private”

protoplaka

up; first floor < “first” + plaka “slab; falling down”

statuta-dzorna

today: “this day”

ta naka

“don’t; without” < “the not”; e.g. ta naka brostoberde “without a deposit”, lit. “the not front-money”

dzaka, dzakata

as soon as, where, when, near, in front, here: Turkish çak “until”?

dzus

without < dzazo “to drive away, to go away” < Romani džav “to go”

tsarðofatsa

opposite: “house face”

*kataxar

opposite

*katina

down < unattested adjective katinos < kato “down”, formed by analogy with totinos “of that time” < tote “then”; hence also *katinotsarðo “down hut = brothel”, *katinoxaus “basement = down hole”

We have often mentioned how avelo (and its Dura Liarda variant vuelo) are characteristic of Kaliarda as light verbs. This is the full list of such verbs in Petropoulos:

avele apokate

come here!

aveli ɡodorelia

wind is blowing

avelo etna, vuelo tnara

to get a pimple

avelo axalia

to go on a diet

avelo vakuloksekolupses

to get divorced

avelo violeta

to give money, to pay

avelo gazoza, vuelo gaza

to have an enema

avelo ɣorɣori

to slap

avelo ðantela

to tie

avelo ðiakona ston berde

to beg, to ask for a loan

avelo etruska

to know Kaliarda (“to do Etruscan”)

avelo kaniko

to leave (“to do leg”)

avelo kapi

to feel up

avelo katolia

to cry

avelo kloz

to close < English close

avelo kontieri, vuelo kontater

to caress

avelo kontratempo

to press

avelo kontrosol

to kiss

avelo kula,vuelo kul kul

to defecate

avelo kuselia

to betray

avelo kusumia

to gossip, to badmouth

avelo krakra

to be thirsty

abelo latsokazantia

to be lucky (“to do good outcome”)

avelo latso paɡro, vuelo tsopagra

to comb (“to do good hair”)

avelo luni

to swim

avelo marmaru

to wait (“to do marble [statue]”)

avelo musi

to get angry (“to do beard/fake”)

avelo bakalumo

to ask

avelo balomba

to over-eat

avelo baltadzu, vuelo baltes

to be put to trial

avelo berde

to pay

avelo berxama

to argue

avelo biesman, avelo biesmando

to feel up

avelo blado

to have one’s period (“to do blood”)

avelo bua

to beep a car horn

avelo but bairaktari

to punish severely (“to do very Bairaktaris”, the notorious police chief of Athens)

avelo but bon

to explain (“to do [say] very well”)

avelo boxikos

to stink

avelo bratelo, vuelo brates

to feel up (“to put hand”, calque of Greek vazo xeri)

avelo brostoberde

to pay in advance

avelo napses

to gossip, to chat

avelo niseste

to have one’s period (“to have clothes”, calque of Greek exo ta ruxa mu)

avelo normal

to fall prone

avelo dania

to act coquettishly (“to do whorishness”)

avelo dezi

to be turned on

avelo dup

to beat up

avelo duranasama

to persevere

avelo dreses

to get dressed

avelo ksekolupses

to part with someone permanently

avelo opsion berde

to have cash (“to have money on-sight [pseudo-French]” < kataθesis opseos “deposit on sight”)

avelo paketo

to have a visible genital bulge (“to do package”)

vuelo bagazi

to have a visible genital bulge (“to do baggage”)

avelo puf

to take a drag of a cigarette

avelo relo

to fart

avelo reta

to fart

avelo retali

to give minimal assistance, to help unenthusiastically

avelo rodosol

to kiss, to lick

avelo skriva

to write

avelo spasibes

to escape

avelo sfina

to be accused

avelo dzastiko, vuelo dza

to leave

avelo dzastiraxosekeri, avelo dzastiraxosolo

to poison

avelo dzasxalema

to vomit

avelo dzoka

to play

vuelo dzoka

to kiss

avelo dzuro

to urinate

avelo dzus lesi

to wash

avelo tula

to be silent

avelo tufes

to sleep deeply

avelo tromba

to inject drugs

avelo tsarðospasiba

to expel

avelo fasamenta

to wear glasses

avelo fiongo

to have sex with a bottom I thought was a top

avelo flokia

to ejaculate

avelo fromaz imitu

to have a filthy penis (“to do Hymettus cheese”)

vuelo ɣorɣodzes

to have a filthy penis (“to do Gorgonzola”)

avelo xus

to hide

vuelo ɡlasonia

to wear glasses

vuelo kanksero

to go

vuelo kelorosola

to cry

vuelo komunoskeli

to have oneʼs period (“to have commie [red] legs”)

vuelo kurunes

to act dishonourably

vuelo laxaniazozumi

to ejaculate (“to do panting juice”)

vuelo munopasxa

to have one’s period

vuelo blukru

to be thirsty

vuelo bubuni

to fart

vuelo ksplika

to explain

vuelo opia

to pay

vuelo ruzoskelo

to have oneʼs period (“to have pink legs”)

vuelo saliango

to kiss (“to do snail/slime”)

vuelo semelopiɣi

to urinate (“to do penis water-spring”)

vuelo silansioles

to betray (< French silencieux “silent”)

vuelo suzman

to be angry (“to do nerves?”: susta “nerve”)

vuelo traɣopurozumo

to bless with holy water (“to do goat.old-man.juice = [bearded] priest water”)

vuelo tremozumo

to ejaculate (“to do trembling juice”)

vuelo fakiropipiza

to have an erection (“to do snake-charmer’s flute”)

vuelo foria

to pressure

vuelo xalastra

to beat brutally (“to do ruin”)

vuelo xtipes

to inject drugs (“to do hits”)

*avelo pluts

to be happy (“to do splash”)

*avelo pluts tabako

to get stoned (“to do splash cigarette” = “to be happy cigarette”)

*avelo bubules

to shoot (“to do boom-boom”)

*avelo xuxules

to be cold (“to do shiver”)

In a few instances, Kaliarda makes semantic differentiations between words that standard Greek does not:

animalonionies

brains (as food): “animal mind”—differentiated from nionio “brains”; both miala in mainstream Greek (but mainstream slang nionio “intellect” only means the latter)

ɣudi

wood (English wood), kariðosfino “walnut (wood) wedge”, differentiated from dup “beating”; both ksilo in mainstream Greek

linga

language < Italian lingua, differentiated from rosolo “tongue” < rosoli “saliva” < rosolio “rosewater liquer”; both ɣlosa in mainstream Greek

There is a massive list of schematic compounds in Kaliarda; I will cut it short at delta:

aðerfokrazo

to meow: “to cat shout”

aðerfotrofi

mouse: “cat food”

aeragistro

magnet: “air hook” (hooks iron in mid-air)

aeranderizo

to fart, to be indifferent: “to air intestines”

aerokaro

airplane: “air cart”

ainstainotabletes

logarithms, logarithm tables: “Einstein tablets”

etnoxorxora

measles: “pimple fire”

akumbotsarðos

neighbour: “touch house”

almobiselu

medium: “soul sleep chick”

ambelobombitses

dolmades: “vineyeard little bombs” (as they are round food wrapped in vineleaves)

anemoviva

soul: “wind life”

anemomandosvuru

windmill: “wind bread spinning-top”

anemoselogugu

medium: “wind sleep ghost chick”

anderosvuru

kokoretsi: “entrail spinning-top”

adikotos

distant: “un-seen”

antikro

TV set: “opposite”

apoliazo

to shut: “to [put] away from the sun”

arapiki dzinavosini

algebra: “Arabian cleverness”

astedupuros

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

astefanotekno

born out of wedlock: “no [wedding] crown child”

astrapopetra

brilliant (diamond): “lightning stone”

atmokazano

railroad: “steam cauldron”

atsarðo

countryside: “houseless”

afroɣuɣulfia

rabies: “foam dog-ness”

axalia

diet: “un-eating”

axatozo

interior, Greece: “here-ness”

axatobenama

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

varonolemari

necktie: “baron neck thing”

vestitosenduko

clothes trunk

vivokokora

fruit: “life mood”

vivokarno

calf: “live beef”

viðobladorufa

leech: “screw blood sucker”; bladorufa “blood sucker” is the cup used in cupping (βεντούζα)

vinaroklina

gargle: “drink clean”

virdzinoskriva

stenography: “virgin writing”

vlaxomiziθra

ricotta: “hillbilly cheese”

vomvobenavo

mumble, whisper: “buzz speak”

voskoxala

vegetables: “pasture food”

ɣaletomandula

biscuit: “rusk bread (diminutive)”

ɣalokarna

cow: “milk beef”

ɣalofusku

female breast: “milk balloon”

ɣarɣarotekno

sailor: “babbling [water] child”

ɣatakia-lalis

tender and faithful friend: “kitten jewel” (Turkish lâl)

ɣatuloɣamulis

tender lover: “kitten(-like) fucker (dimin.)”

ɣenapaɡros

beardless: “beard hairless”

ɡlobaro

to screw something, from globos “light bulb”

ɡodaxali

religious fasting: “god un-eating”, godaxalo “lenten food”

ɡodoðiakonevo, ɡodozitianevo

to pray: “god beg (as beggar)”

ɡodoðula

angel: “god slave”

ɡodokontra

Hell: “opposite god”

ɡodoprezanta

Epiphany: “god presentation”

ɡodoprofesoros

theologian: “god professor”

ɡodotekno

Jesus: “god child”

ɡran-vakulodavadzis

patriarch: “grand church pimp = grand archbishop”

ɡran-vakulopuros

bishop: “grand church old man = grand priest”

ɡrifopsipsizo

to scratch: “nail pussycat”

ɡroso kanɡelokaro

army tank: “large metal cart”

ɡrosokuakis

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

ɣuɣuloxalo

to bite: “wolf eat”

ɣuɣulfakis

dog: “little wolf”

ɣulfobenavo

to bark: “dog talk”

ɣrasiðopaɡru

cotton: “grass fleece”

ɣiroɣalu

fatty: “go-around milk” (alluding to churning milk)

ɣirozaru

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

ɣirotera

year: “go-around earth”

ɣirofisu

fan: “go-around blow chick”

ɣirobukis

generous party-goer: “fills (with food) those around”

ðaxtilo

piano: “finger chick”

ðikeloɣonias

cross-eyed: “looks corner”

ðikelomantio

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

ðikelomantopoðia

curtain: “window apron”

ðikelosvura

dizziness: “looking spinning-top”

ðikeloskales

benches in stadium: “steps for looking”

ðikelto

eye: “seen thing”

ðikeltu

glance: “seen chick”

ðiplomiliona

million: “double thousand”

ðiploroða, dubloroða

bicycle: “double wheel”

Finally, this is the list of Kaliarda colour words:

ɡrekos

dark blue < “Greek” (national colour)

kipi

green: “garden-coloured”

kuli

beige, brown: “shit-coloured”

blavos

black < mainstream “bruised, black-and-blue” < Venetian blavo “blue”

blakis

black < English black

nekri

purple: “death-coloured” (purple is associated with funerals)

neros

black < Italian nero

dareli

yellow (< darela “gossip, nonsense”?)

durosielo

blue: “hard sky-coloured” (French ciel, used in Greek as a colour word)

durosielo tis renas

royal blue: “the queen’s blue”

plereza

black (usually in compounds) < Standard plereza “mourning veil” < French pleureuse

rozi

red: “rose coloured”. (In standard Greek, roz is borrowed from French rose and means “pink”)

sielos

pale blue < Italian cielo, French ciel “sky”; siel < ciel already means “pale blue” in Standard Greek

xionis, xionikos

white: “snow-coloured”