How do you say “to shell” in Provençal?
In Provençal you say canouna, cursa, degruna, desclousca, desgruia, escaloufa. All forms are given in Mistralian spelling, as attested in our sources.
| Provençal equivalents | canouna, cursa, degruna, desclousca, desgruia, escaloufa, petarda |
Details of the Provençal equivalents
canouna
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to shell; to gadroon; to flute |
cursa
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to husk, to shell |
degruna
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to shell; to crumble; to decline |
desclousca
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to shell, to open one's oysters and mussels |
desgruia
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to shell |
escaloufa
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to shell |
petarda
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to bombard; to shell; to mine; to blow up |