- Abondo: a lot, quite a bit
- to esgaya: a lot
- Afayadizu: That it is pleasant to be in
- Amagüestu: Traditional festival
- Antroxu: carnival
- Caleya: narrow and short alley or street
- windlass: bar
- Chiscar: splash
- Duernu: container where the apple juice is collected when pressed. The cider’of sleep‘is the juice resulting from pressing the apple.
- Bore: push
- Escamplar: clear, disappear the clouds from the sky
- Esfamiáu: very hungry
- Spicha: Action of opening a barrel of cider. Because it applies to any party, snack where cider is the main drink.
- Fame: hunger
- fartucar: eat a lot, get full
- Folixa: party
- Foriatu: stranger
- Line: Eat while drinking or before drinking to contain the effects of alcohol or to not feel hungry for a long time
- Frixuelos: crepe
- Gabitu (lend a): lend a hand
- Guaje: boy
- Home: man
- Mancar: do harm
- March: leave
- Mozu/a: boyfriend/girlfriend
- Woman: women
- Orbayu: drizzle
- Oricios: hedgehogs
- Chop: knock on the door or bell
- squid: pot
- Prau: meadow
- pregnant: stuffed
- Lend: please, like
- Roller: kitchen cloth
- Tendal: clothesline
- Uvieu: Oviedo
- Xareu: fuss, party
- Xixón: Gijón
Additionally, you have to keep these tips in mind:
- If they call you bobbin either coil, don’t be angry. More than an insult, it is affectionate. Be worried if they call you babayu.
- If they call you life either vidina Don’t think they are trying to flirt with you. It is a loving way of addressing people, even if we don’t know them.
- Don’t think it’s bad if you hear ‘Wow you are so fit today!‘. It’s not that it’s disgusting, but that you’re having a bad day.
- Here we finish everything in -in either -ina. It has nothing to do with size. It’s just to make it more ours. It even helps us to include the ‘please’: Can you give me a coffee?
- Although here in Gijón/XixónAs we are big, too we use the augmentative a lot. Look: the Escalerona, the Molinón, the Iglesiona, the Acerona, the Fabricona, les Letrones…
- By the way, it is sidrina. Not ‘sidriña’! And, you may have noticed, We put the pronouns at the end and always use the simple past: did you understand?
- Attentive! The masculine singular is -or, the plural is -you. And in the feminine the singular is -to and the plural -is. ‘cow‘ and ‘fabe‘ they do not exist. Is cow and bean. Plural: cows and Fabes
- Some may not have much of an accent, but you will notice that Asturian YE, because Y.E.: what time is it?; where are you? how handsome ye!; Ye what’s there!..
- everything is beautiful. The bonito is a fish.
- For emphasis, we end the sentences in Ho!, which is the abbreviation of home (man). You can also hear ¡Ne! In the end if you are a woman.
- ‘go see the whale‘ is not an invitation to a tourist attraction to observe wildlife. They are sending you for a walk.
- Ah! And if there is something that we like, but at the same time it is endearing to us, we say that lends us or what ye prestosu.