Small Pyrenean lexicon
Here a small lexicon of terms used in the Pyrenees. If you know others of them, do not hesitate to contact me.
- abatch: pre of altitude
- araillous, arralhos: rocky
- arou, aroun, aredoun, arredon: round
- arouge: red
- arralhère: slope of fall
- arribet: small brook
- arriu, arriou: brook
- arrouy, rouyo, royo: red
- artigue: pasture
- aygue, aigue, ague: water
- ayous: bilberry
- baca, baco: cow
- bal, bat, batch, baight: valley
- baradat: closed place
- barranc, barranco: ravine
- bassia: place of gathering of sheep
- bedech: calf
- bieilh: old
- blanque, blanca, blancat: white
- borde: barn, sheep-fold
- bouéou: ox
- boum: lake
- brèque, bréca: breach
- caillaou, calhaù, caillau: insulated rock
- caillaouas: broken stones
- cairn: stone heap to mark the way (old celtic word)
- cami: path
- campana: pointed rock, bell-tower
- canau, canaou, canal: stiff corridor
- cap: top
- caso: house
- castech, castet: castle, ridges strengthened
- cazaou: garden
- coum: feeding trough
- courade, corada: collar
- courtau, courtaou, coueyla, cuyeou, cujala, cuyala, courau: corral
- cova: cave, rock shelter
- crabe: goat
- culaous, culaus: hollow
- doulent: sausage of pork rinds
- embarrat: locked up
- escalette: passage of the staircase type
- escalo: scale
- espade, espada: sword
- espugne, espalungue, espelunga: cave
- esquiro: squirrel
- estan, estany, estanio: lake
- estibe: pastures of summer
- estiouère: pastures on average altitude
- facha, faja: path on a cornice
- fag, fach, faig, faigt: beech
- fita: switches
- forat, fourat: pit
- forc, fourc, forcat, fourcat: forked
- garouno: torrent
- gave: river
- germ: meadow in altitude
- goueil: eye, source
- goueille: ewe
- gourg, gourga, gorg: deep lake
- hail: beech
- hailla: torch
- hont: fountain
- houeillassat: ewe
- hount: source
- hourquette: collar in altitude
- ilisa: avalanche
- jouéou: jupiter
- labasse, lauze, lause: stone punt
- laquette, laqueta: small lake
- lis: avalanche
- louseras: ground with slates
- mailhé, mail: insulated rock
- major, mayou, mayor: main, principal
- male: bad
- marcadau: market
- mij, mieil: medium
- mouillère: marshy ground
- mourène: brown
- néou: snow
- nère, né, negre: black
- nera: black
- neste: torrent
- noguera: river
- ombré: pouring in the shade
- oueil: eye, source
- oueille, oueillère: ewe
- oule, oulette, oulète: circus
- oumbret: pouring in the shade
- orri, orry: cants out of stone
- pailhet: field of straw
- pale: inclined lawn
- paloume, paloma: wood pigeon
- pas, passe: narrow passage
- pénaous: steps on the pinions of the houses
- pène: flattened top
- pétéram: tripe
- peyre: stone
- pich: cascades
- pistacho: beans
- pla, plaa, plan, plano: flat ground
- port, porteille, pourtère: collar border
- pountet: small bridge
- pouric: chick
- prat, pradère: pre
- pujol, puyo, pouey, pouy: monticule
- punta: top
- quebe, quieba: cave, rock shelter
- raillère: slope of fall
- redon, redo: round
- rio: brook
- riu, rieu: brook
- rouyo, royo: red
- sède, séda: monticule
- seilh: glacier
- senda, sender: path
- serre, serrat: crest
- soula, soulane: pouring with the sun
- soum: round top
- tort: sinuous
- toue: rock shelter
- tourin: soup with garlic
- tourrat, torrat: freezing
- tramezaygues: between two rivers
- tuc, tuca, tusse, tuque: secondary top
- tusso: peak
- vath: valley
- vielh: old
