menos

Esti pueblu ye menos guapu que'l to.


nada

Inherited from Latin (nūlla rēs) nāta (literally “no born thing, not a thing born”), an extension of nēmō nātus (“not a soul”, literally “nobody born”). For descendants of the other part of the expression see Galician ren (“nothing”), French rien (“nothing”), Catalan res (“nothing; anything”). For the grammaticalization of an original nominal as a negative see Jespersen's Cycle and French pas.


u

¿Du yes? ¿Au vas? ¿Nu tas?

Where are you from? Where are you going? Where are you in?


allá

there (in that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc.)


aquí

From Vulgar Latin *eccum hīc, from Latin eccum + hic.

(location) here (in, on, or at this place)


más

Esti pueblu ye más guapu que'l de to.


antes

before, beforehand (in a remote time, while enantes is a recent past)


dun

(literary or archaic) meanwhile, in the mean time


mañana

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *māneāna, from Latin māne.


como

Inherited from Old Leonese commo, como, cuemo, from Latin cōmō̆, a non-literary form of quōmodo.


tampoco

Borrowed from, or otherwise related to, Spanish tampoco.


cómo

From Latin cōmō̆, a non-literary form of quōmodo.

¿A cómo ye'l pexe?


dél

Alternative form of dello (when lacking the neuter)


dello

Quédame dello pan


yá

¡Yá lo sé!

sí, yá lo sé

(after or before sí) (emphatical) yes, of course

yá que tas equí


por eso

therefore (for that or this reason; for that)


antia

(Parres, Sobrescobiu) Alternative form of antes


acullá

Acullá utru s'estrapa ,

1789, Xosefa Xovellanos, Proclamación de Carlos IV n'Uviedo:

Sinón ¿cómo acullá peronde el xelu...

In that case ¿how over there, where the ice...

Desque foron pa acullá


a poco a poco

little by little
little by little#English

(idiomatic) little by little (a small amount at a time)


lante

(Central Asturias) (uncommon) Alternative form of alantre


acordes

Taben mui acordes col tratu.

Yá ta tan vieyu que nun fala acordes

He's so old he doesn't speak clearly anymore


dantes

(Palacios del Sil) Alternative form of enantes


allén

Ñeros pillando aquí, frutas allendi,

1863, Amable González Abín, Pe'l mio llugar:

Picking up nests here, fruits over there

Allende los mares;

1914, Jesús Arango Álvarez, Fuxendo a Cabranes:

Allende d'eso, ¿qué mas vas dicime?

Apart from that, what else are you going to tell me?


dempués

Un añu dempués

Dempués de comer


equí

From Vulgar Latin *eccum hīc, from Latin eccum + hic ("this here").


cada y cuando

(idiomatic) every now and again, now and then, once in a while


ello foi una vegada

(used at the beginnings of fairytales) (idiomatic) once upon a time


dafechu

Possibly from de + afechu. Ultimately from Latin dē and Latin affectare. Compare Mirandese dafeito
# totally, fully, completely
# straightaway, from one go
# straight
# forever


anguaño

[…]: ayeri dixo una cosa y güey diz lo contrario, l'añu pasáu nevó muncho pero anguaño nun cai un falopu.

2001, Gramática de la Llingua Asturiana, 3rd edition, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, page 178:

[…] : yesterday he said something and today he says the opposite, last year there was a lot of snow but this year not even a snowflake.

Anguaño, la llingua asturiana ta nuna situación esmolecedora porque, anque socialmente ye cada día más aceutada y reconocida, entá nun llogró nin un estatus xurídicu amañosu nin una bona presencia nos medios de comunicación, […]

2008, Grupu de Trabayu «Xeitu», Xeitu, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, page 17

The Asturian language is currently in an alarming situation because, although it becomes more socially accepted and recognised every day, it still hasn’t been granted an adequate legal status nor has it achieved a good media presence, […]


cumu

(Western Asturias) Alternative form of como


abenayá

abenayá que nun lu veo

2001, Gramática de la Llingua Asturiana, 3rd edition, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, page 154:

it has been some time since I last saw him


enantes

before, beforehand (in a recent time, while antes is a more remote past)


entós

From Latin in + *tunce, the latter an archaic form of tunc (“then”). Compare Spanish entonces and Portuguese então.


aguanu

(Babia, Palacios de Sil, west) Alternative form of anguaño


anguanu

(Taberga, Babia, Palacios del Sil, A Estierna, Cangas del Narcea, west) Alternative form of anguaño


enguañu

(Salas, Cuarto de los Valles) Alternative form of anguaño


enguanu

(Taberga, Quirós, Somiedu, Paḷḷuezu, A Estierna, Cangas del Narcea, Cuarto de los Valles) Alternative form of anguaño


aguañu

(Llanes, Cabrales, Parres) Alternative form of anguaño


anguañu

(Cabrales, Parres, Colunga, Bimenes, Sobrescobiu, Ayer, Ḷḷena, Quirós, Taberga, Somiedu, Babia, Palacios de Sil, Paḷḷuezu, A Estierna, Cangas del Narcea, Salas, Cuarto de los Valles, Valdés, Eonavian, west) Alternative form of anguaño


iguaño

(Villacidayo) Alternative form of anguaño


inguanu

(A Estierna, Cangas del Narcea, Cuarto de los Valles) Alternative form of anguaño


unguañu

(Cuarto de los Valles) Alternative form of anguaño


aguano

(Sobrescobiu, Ayer, Ḷḷena, Eonavian) Alternative form of anguaño


a sangre frío

(idiomatic) in cold blood (in a ruthless and unfeeling manner)


de fechu

(idiomatic) in fact (actually, in truth)


llexos

Borrowed from Spanish lejos. Compare native forms lloñe and llonxe.


dacuando

de- + alcuando, with the loss of the l in most dialects

¿Dacuando me viestis facer eso?

Hubo dacuando un rey tan muyeriegu

19th century, Teodoro Cuesta, Recuerdo histórico:

y non te esmuelgues en pensar que dacuando fó otra cosa !

1908, Félix López del Vallado, Cartes del Estoyu:

and do not bother thinking it was ever anything else !

occasionally, once in a while, from time to time


a punta pala

-¡Yá! Pues trai nel periódicu que los que garren meyor la enfermedá son los neños y tán cayendo a punta pala

1987, Luis Díez Tejón, Esta tierra en que nacimos:


comu

(Eastern Asturias, Teberga) Alternative form of como


antias

(Palacios del Sil, Eo-Navia) Alternative form of antes


acullú

(Galician-Asturian) Alternative form of aculló


antayeri

From anta- (“before (latin)”) + ayeri (“yesterday”).

af

antier

Oseya de Sayambre, Los Argüeyos, Babia, Ḷḷaciana


denantias

(Babia and Ḷḷaciana) Alternative form of enantes


anantias

(Western Asturias) Alternative form of enantes


lantre

(Central Asturias, Parres) Alternative form of alantre


nuistru

head

nuistru m sg (feminine singular nuistra, neuter singular nuistro, masculine plural nuistros, feminine plural nuistres)

nuistra (feminine singular)
nuistro (neuter singular)
nuistros (masculine plural)
nuistres (feminine plural)


abondoceo

Nun seméis entá les pataques ye abondoceo

Don't sow the potatoes yet it's too soon


a lo gocho

(idiomatic) disorderly, untidily, messily, in an improper manner


sin un perrín

[sĩŋ ˌũm peˈrĩŋ]


alcuando

¿Vístilu alcuando?


aculló

(Western Asturian) there, over there, yonder