Some questions for you sud commander
Italian to my small knowledge seems to have more words that end in 'I' than with Calabrese or with what I know of Calabrese.
Ok I will write some of the words I can think of at the moment. Some of the words my family says are probably not true Calabrese, because they are English words that sound Italian or Calabrese. I don't know which ones, but I guess there are more than a few. Anyway I will just put the ones I think are closest to the real words. So Please Excuse the very VERY POOR SPELLING Americano
Ok so I warned ya here goes nothing!
chicaeda = girl
chicaedu = guy
manga = eat
zucca = sauce
forno = oven
porcheda = female pig
porchedu = male pig
casaloda = cooking pot or kettle
canalettas = eaves droppings or gutters
capadostu = hardhead
mortamazzazza = to kill dead
mazzamushca = what we called the fly swatter
musha = slow
cula musha = slow ass
ascpeta = wait
mada mada = look... look... or look at you!
bonyadole = clothes shoot? or laundry basket?
bonne zuc = sauce with bread
rashola = steak roll
dove = where
gittianu (or like jit-tee-ahn) = running around or screwing off
fasha or fashan = like flatter
stunatha (like stew-not-tha) = in a daze or stupid
qui cauada = how hot?
La straga = witch
cano = dog
chicallas = cicadas or locusts
cattiola = hoopty (old junky car)
chicanadas = chickens or people to keep the chickens
cunidas (like coo-need-yas) = rabits
cicadeanga (like chick-adee-yahn-ga (like to make chicken breast)
il gatto = the cat
tripivets = your gut or belly
shacalatuc (like shock-alla-took) wash the lettuce
allahinda = elephant (or if you don't want to call someone a fatty )
Oh and a funny one:
pasta patat = past & potatos
past pasida = (like paseeda) pasta and peas
La machine = We call that to people who stuff their faces with food
Ok I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch and I also could add some crude words, but david did a pretty good enough job with those although here's a couple of things you say when you're pissed off or telling someone to piss off I just don't know what parts of these words mean what