How do you say “to break” in Provençal?
In Provençal you say cacha, desboula, escaloussa, esclapa, espeça, peta. All forms are given in Mistralian spelling, as attested in our sources.
| Provençal equivalents | cacha, desboula, escaloussa, esclapa, espeça, peta, pouncheja, roumpre, s'esclapa |
Details of the Provençal equivalents
cacha
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to hide, to break, to crunch, to crush, to bruise, to oppress, to parry, to press, to beat down, to slice, to squash |
desboula
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to tear off a branch, to break, to unseal, to bolt off like a hare, to remove the boundary markers of a property |
escaloussa
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to break |
esclapa
| Grammatical category | Adjective |
| English translation | to shatter into pieces; to break; broken |
espeça
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to shatter, to split; to break; to dismember; to cut up; to break off |
peta
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to burst, to explode, to pop; to break; to fly off |
pouncheja
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to appear, to seem, to break, to point (day) |
roumpre
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to shatter, to break, to clear, to break off, to fracture, to beat |
s'esclapa
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to collapse, to break |