AtD 246 Italian Word

[gabriel rosenkoetter]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 05:33:37PM +0200, Ya Sam wrote:
> I guess it must be Venetian dialect, as googling didn't yield any results. 
> What's 'giadrul'?
> 
> "Maybe looking behind those leaves for a big giadrul?"

Assuming you got the same Google results I did, this:

https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0007&L=irtrad-l&T=0&P=98197

("You (all), eat more of the pasta!" -- hasn't anything to
do with the word in question here.)

buys you this:

https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0007&L=irtrad-l&T=0&P=94630

which is pretty useless.

"Gia`" alone means "already" or "yet", but it's not clear to me 
that's the appropriate syllabic separation here, nor whether it
means that as a syllable. (I thought it was "under" or "up" or
"through" or something like that, but I think I'm wrong.)

"Rullare" means "to roll" or "to reel".

I can't quite make an idiomatic insult out of that in English (nor
explain the--pronunciation-only? dialetic?--insertion of the d),
but if rullare is the root verb, it seems to imply something ugly
about where/when/how the object "rolls".

My Italian ain't great, but I don't think this one's in as common
use as vafanculo these days, so it may be a bit more difficult to
sort out, especially since the spelling's in doubt.

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr at eclipsed.net
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