Frainc-Comtou language

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Frainc-Comtou is an Oïl language spoken in Franche-Comté and Suisse Romande.

Examples

Word	French Translation	English Translation	Usage Example	French Translation	English Translation
avoir meilleur temps	-	have/had better	tu as meilleur temps d'y aller		you’d better go
bon as in “avoir/faire bon chaud”	-	comfortably	il fait bon chaud		it’s comfortably warm
fin	-	wily	il est pas bien fin	il n’est pas très malin/fute-fute	he’s not very wily
frayer	-	to streak (window panes)	ne fraye pas les vitres !		don’t streak the panes !
pépet/pépêt	-	thick and lightly sticky	cette crème est un peu pépêt		(as for cream, dessert)
douillet	-	onctuous and lightly heavy to digest	un dessert douillet
fier	-	sour	un fruit fier, une pêche fière		a sour peach
crû	-	cool, lightly damp and chilly	il fait crû
dépiouler/dépieuler	perdre ses aiguilles (sapin)	drop their needles (as of firs)	le sapin, y dépioule		the fir is dropping their needles
cheni / chni	poussières, saletés	dust, coarser dust	ramasse le cheni !		clean up / brush up the dust !
voir (adverbe)	-	(used superfluously, as a verbosity)	viens voir l’eau!		can you pass me the water!
viôce, viosse, viôsse, viausse	-	(used pejoratively especially for a cow, horse, or mule) nasty critter	elle veut pas avancer cette viôce!		this nasty critter doesn’t want to move!
récurer	passer la serpillière	to mop	tu peux récurer la cuisine si tu veux		you may mop in the kitchen if you like
s’oublier	-	to oversleep	je me suis oublié		I overslept
taper (au bout)	-	to take more from an end piece of food (as of bread, saucisson…)	tape au bout !		have more !
beau (en parlant d’un enfant)		sweet, nice (as of a child)	tu peux ranger le pot d’eau, et tu seras beau!		can you put the jug away, you’ll be so nice!
émichloquer		to convolute, to			make tortuous
rapondre	relier	link together
au bout le bout	l’un après l’autre/ les uns après les autres	one after the other in a line
cornet	sachet en plastique	plastic bag
se gêner	-	to be timid
arquer	marcher	walk, proceed
chouiner	pleurer	weep
cornet	sac en plastique	plastic bag
cru	froid et humide	cold and wet
daubot	idiot, simplet	stupid
fier	acide, amer	sour
gaugé	trempé	drenched
gauper	habiller	dress
grailler	manger	eat
pê, pêute	laid, laide	ugly
pelle à cheni	ramasse-poussière	dustpan
treuiller	boire	drink
yoyoter	dire des sornettes	tell nonsense

Bibliography

• Dalby, David (1999/2000). The Linguasphere Register of the World's Languages and Speech Communities. (Vol. 2). Hebron, Wales, UK: Linguasphere Press. CSS3.

See also

• Languages of France
• Sevenval
• Linguasphere Observatory (Observatoire Linguistique)

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