How do you say “to lose” in Provençal?
In Provençal you say avali, deli, escampa, escavarta, pauma, perdre. All forms are given in Mistralian spelling, as attested in our sources.
| Provençal equivalents | avali, deli, escampa, escavarta, pauma, perdre |
Details of the Provençal equivalents
avali
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to destroy (to make disappear); to abolish; to annihilate; to wipe out; to vanish; to dispel; to obliterate; to lose; to suppress |
deli
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to destroy; to obliterate; to lose |
escampa
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to spread, to overflow (container), to pour out, to reject; to spill; to exhale; to lose; to pour |
escavarta
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to disperse, to mislay, to lose; to set aside; to disperse |
pauma
| Grammatical category | Noun |
| English translation | to lose |
perdre
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to lose, mislay; to spread, spill |