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èci

 

vinegar

éci (Tåk vögléda kåk éci)

 

calf (He is like a calf)

èden (Ēden za drügin so šli)

 

one (They walked one after another)

edenajset

 

eleven

èdennej

 

nobody

edíni

 

only / single

ednåuk

 

once / earlier

èdni (Ēdni tåk míslijo, ka je njín vsè slobåudno)

 

some (Some believe that they can do anything)

Egiptánec (Vöoslåubodin móje lüstvo z råuk Egiptáncov)

 

Egyptian (I freed my people from Egyptian captivity)

èjks (Tåu je trbèj spíti na èjks)

 

bottom (You have to empty the cup to the bottom)

Ejmi

 

Emil

elèjktriš (Pred drügov bójnov je èške nèj bilåu elèktriša v Porabji)

 

electric / electricity (Before the Second World War there was no electricity in the villages of Porabje)

èndvåjset

 

twenty-one

èndvåjsti

 

twenty-first

England

 

England / Great Britain

Englánder

 

Englishman

ènognévni (Ēnognévno délo je bilåu)

 

one-day (It was a one-day's work)

ènolétni (V ènolétno šåulo je ódila)

 

one-year (She went to a one-year school)

ènomèjsečni (Ēnomèjsečni slüž ne dójde za kürdjenjé)

 

one-month (A monthly wage is not enough to pay the heating costs)

èntrésti

 

thirty-four

érba

 

heritage

ètak (Ētak napråvi!)

 

that way (Do it that way!)

ètakši

 

such

ètan

 

there

èti (tü)

 

here

èto (Ēto je príšo pa prnèso péneze)

 

recently (He popped in recently and brought the money)

európski

 

European

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Translated from German: Joël Gerber

 

 

 

 

 

Source: "Porabsko-Knjižnoslovensko-Madžarski Slovar/Porabian-Literary Slovenian-Hungarian Dictionary"

               Ferenc Mukics, SZIGNATURA Nyomda és Kiadó Kft., (2005)