How do you say “sickly” in Provençal?
In Provençal you say cativous, cherescle, magagnous, malandrous, malautis, malautiéu. All forms are given in Mistralian spelling, as attested in our sources.
| Provençal equivalents | cativous, cherescle, magagnous, malandrous, malautis, malautiéu, malautoun, malautous, poutingous, soufrachous, soufrachouso |
Details of the Provençal equivalents
cativous
| Grammatical category | Adjective |
| English translation | puny; sickly; mawkish |
cherescle
| Grammatical category | Adjective |
| English translation | slender, sickly, puny, delicate, mawkish |
| Feminine | -esclo |
magagnous
| Grammatical category | Adjective |
| English translation | valetudinarian, sickly, deceitful; cunning |
malandrous
| Grammatical category | Adjective |
| English translation | sickly; puny; valetudinarian |
malautis
| Grammatical category | Adjective |
| English translation | sickly |
malautiéu
| Grammatical category | Adjective |
| English translation | sickly |
malautoun
| Grammatical category | Adjective |
| English translation | sickly |
| Feminine | malautouno |
| Variants | malautouno |
malautous
| Grammatical category | Adjective |
| English translation | sickly |
poutingous
| Grammatical category | Adjective |
| English translation | sickly |
| Feminine | poutingouso |
| Variants | poutingouso |
soufrachous
| Grammatical category | Adjective |
| English translation | sickly |
soufrachouso
| Grammatical category | Adjective |
| English translation | sickly |