[LUTE] Re: Translation for Ladino text.

[Stephen Arndt]

Gernot,

Did you mistype something? I never saw a Greek word beginning with "mp".

Stephen

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and also in Greek, berbantis (Μπερμπάντης). I do not know
exactly what It means, but is is a word for a man in the field also
containing women and adultery.
g

On 26.04.2008, at 21:50, Roman Turovsky wrote:

There is a similar word in Italian- BIRBANTE.
RT
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hi, Herbert,
'berbante'...
for me, with modern ears, it sounds as a sort of mixture between
'bribón' (= rascal) and 'bergante' (= someone very lazy and also  crook,
like the Lazarillo, that famous character in the spanish novel from  the
XVI Cent.).
Saludos,
Manolo



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