Elements of Aromanian Phraseology

by  Dumitru Carabas

Abstract

The phraseological material that I will present shows that contemporary Aromanian has a tremendous wealth of meaning, incorporating and being able to convey emotions, feelings, moods, irony, life experiences.

The phrasemes appear as genuine diamonds, arising from the compression process of experiences, thoughts, feelings, fears, joys and ironies in synthetic expressions under the weight of mountains of daily worries, while also being sensitive forms of escaping everyday life, not always pleasant, especially if you take a look at the history of Aromanians.

Aromanian phraseology incorporates of the Greek, Slavic, Turkish or Albanian context among which it has developed, especially if we consider the bilingualism, or more correctly, multilingualism of the Aromanians/.

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