Provençal proverb

Enfant e pasto au soulèu se jalo.

Children

Maritime Provençal

Enfant e pasto au soulèu se jalo.

Meaning

Child and dough freeze even in the sun.

Note : Applied to young children who must be well wrapped up, and whom the sun alone would not be enough to warm in certain seasons.

Theme

Children

Source : La Tour-Keyrié, Recueil de proverbes provençaux (1882), Gallica — public domain. Maritime Mistralian normalisation by Lingua Nostra.

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