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PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:15 am    Post subject: fesoria - hoe - azada Reply with quote

fesoria: pronounced feh-SOH-ree-ah. A hoe or long-handled implement with a thin, flat blade used to break up the surface of the ground and loosen the dirt.

The fesoria is used in Asturias as a gardening tool for small patches of land (llosa or l.lousa is the word for garden). The flat blade of iron or steel is attached to the wooden handle through an eye or tang (gueyu, in Asturian).

Word variants in West Asturias include: fisoria, fisoira, fosoira. In East Asturias: h.esoria, h.osoria. The word is derived from Latin: fossorium. By extension, a fesoriada or fesoriazu is something that has been hacked away crudely with a hoe-like implement.

Usage examples:

A ver si m’afaigo con esa fesoria. [Let’s see if I can get accustomed to that hoe.]
Esmangou la fesoria ya nun yara a trabal.lar. [He broke the handle of the hoe and was unable to work.]
Ia una fesoria mui alcontradiza pa binar el maiz. [It’s a very convenient hoe for breaking up the corn.]

Folk wisdom:

Con papes y boroña faise andar la fesoria. [Potatoes and cornbread are the fuel for the hoe.]
El qu’antes de morrer da lo que tien, si-y dan cola fesoria merezlo bien. [If a dying person is given what he/she deserves, if they hit them with a hoe it’s because they deserve it.]


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:43 am    Post subject: Re: fesoria - hoe - azada Reply with quote

Is wrote:
fesoria: pronounced feh-SOH-ree-ah.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Fesoria.JPG/250px-Fesoria.JPG
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Exactly, Tierradenaide. Thanks for the picture of the hoe in a very Asturian-looking backdrop. Do you know where the picture was taken?

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Ia eso, Tierradenaide. Gracias pula semeya de la fesoria col fondu de paisaxe tan asturianu. Sabes au fixenon la foto?
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is wrote:
Sabes au fixenon la foto?


hola Is, estoy tentado de decir: en mi solar pequeñito --> pero tengo pedalear mi caballo un poco más antes estaré allí. entonces iría a atreverme a decir: tuyo. ne, tut mir leid, hab keinen blassen dunst. pero cuando vivo en asturias voy a comenzar fotos y les publicar en la red. como he dicho ya: a mi imágenes son como alimento ~ servus, peter

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tamién se diz cesoria, ente otros sitios en Zardaín Wink
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ayandés wrote:
Tamién se diz cesoria, ente otros sitios en Zardaín Wink


Si, pues a ver si m'echas un gabitu pa cona cesoria xunto tua casa. Ta'l prau mui mol.lau ya sal muita augua de la qu'escarabico. Vou entamar a cavar una l.louria pa tresplantar las berenxenas turcas, si ia que son quien a salir aiqui n'Asturias.
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