Frédéric Mistral / Poet and Leader in Provence

by Charles Alfred Downer

paurin, poor wretch.

-ioun (fem.).

This corresponds to the French -ion.

nacioun, nation.
abdicacioun, abdication.
erme, desert.
asserma, to dry up.
assermacioun, thirst, dryness.

-is (masc.), -isso (fem.).

Crida, to cry.
cridadisso, cries of woe.
chapla, to slay.
chapladis, slaughter.
coula, to flow.
couladis or couladisso, flowing.
abareja, to throw pell-mell.
abarejadis, confusion.
toumba, to fall.
toumbadis, -isso, tottering (adj.).

This suffix is added to the past participle stem.

-isoun (fem.).

This suffix forms nouns from verbs in -i.