solmenar
Appearance
Asturian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]solmenar
- to shake vigorously (eg: a tree)
- 1845-1895?, Teodoro Cuesta, La Danza:
- Tuércese com´una blima cuando ´l vientu la solmena
- It twists like a wicker when the wind shakes it.
- to hit, beat up
- 1845-1895?, Teodoro Cuesta, A la memoria del malogrado General Concha[1]:
- El XIGANTE [...] quixo un día 'solmenar', en sos fuerces enfotau, esta probe nación q' aborrecía.
- One day, the GIANT wanted to beat up, confident in his strength, this poor nation that he hated.
- 1869, Juan Junquera Huergo, Gramática Asturiana[2]:
- roña que rabia, solmena á lla muyer y llos fiínos, anda tudu s'guedeyau y ye menester trellu á recostines.
- (he is) a shithead that angers me, he hits his wife and children, he's all tattered and you have to carry him on your back.
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