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My my how time flies. In a few days it will be August. July was named after Julius Ceaser and August after Augustus Ceaser, another Roman emperor.
Well the Roman empire never reached Lithuania so Lithuanians never got those Roman months.
August is Rugpjutis = pronounced R(ugh)pew(tis like "...'tis the season to be jolly, tra la la, la la, la la, la, laaaa".
It means that it is time for farmers to cut rye. Rye is the crop used to make rye bread. No self respecting Lithuanian would request wheat or corn bread. Rye it is - Alfa/Omega.
RUG is short for RUGIAI (rye or crop), PJUTIS is a noun of a verb PJAUTI (cut or reap).
So there you have it ladies and gentlemen, I present you with RUGPJUTIS !!!
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PS We have a very important month coming up after August...well it is important to me 'couse it's my birthday month...yea
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Your ever friendly Lithuanian, on line tutor and a well known know-it-all......me......Got a promotion and a pay raise (I think).
I am now a.........drum roll please...thank you.....a "GOLD MEMBER"............How about that.....Little old me.....up there with the best of the best!!!...Yea!!!!
First of all I like to thank my beautiful wife for encouraging me, my two daughters who don't care one way or another, our three cats Cutie, Faisty and Heidee and all you folks from not turning me in for mental evaluation...
Thank You (Aciu)
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Welcome to SEPTEMBER fellow Texas Lithuanians....September is a great month because it is a great time of the year. Leaves begin to turn from green to yellow and red (not in Texas). The temperatures drop to the 70 & 80's (not in Texas). It is not as humid (not in Texas). It is a good time to have BBQ's and to visit friends and relatives (yes, in TEXAS!!!).
Lithuania was and still is agricultural and September tells the grovers (farmers) to plant winter seeds for next years crop. September is called RUGSEJIS pronounced ROO(G)SAY(IS), sort of like "rug" but it is pronounced "roog" with the stress on "u".
It comes from the word "rugiai" which means "crop" and "seti" which means "to plant".
Some very important peoples birthdays are celebrated in September, mine and couple others.
September is a great time to visit Lithuania. It is cooler and less crowded. I prefer winter time visit myself. Sure it is cold, ask Napoleon. But if you dress right your walk, down the snow covered 500 year old streets, is so relaxing and pleasant......that is the best medicine both for mind and the body.
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Just a post or two ago it was August then September and now it is OCTOBER. In Latin October means something, I don't know what it means but I'm sure it's something........Let's get the pronounciation straight: In Lithuanian October is SPALIS, pronounced SPA(like in sauna) and LIS (like list without the t on the end). There, with that out of the way, let's get to the Lithuanian meaning of SPALIS, but first this commercial:
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Now to the meaning. If you noticed Lithuanian months have a lot to do with farming activity: plant, watch it grow and harvest.......Sooo, after you harvest, what is left in the field?.......Anybody?........Stalks!!! You guessed it......Lot's of stalks, long and short ones. In Lithuanian we call them spaliai. The long ones we use for roofs and scarecrow building, the short ones for wall insulation, fire and brick making (like adobe)......Neat eh?
I bet even some Lithuanian speakers did not know that......Hmmm, neither did I. Had to look up SPALIS in my Lithuanian Encyclopedia.
Conclusion: If your roof leaks, cover it with SPALIAI (plural).....If your walls are drafty, fill them with SPALIAI......Want to start a fire in your fireplace, use SPALIAI......Need a brick or two to accent your garden?.....Mix some Texas clay with SPALIAI and dry it in the sun.
See you, Lord willing and creek don't rise, in November.
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Got tangled up with this MONTH business and lost track of time.......So loosen up everybody.......IT IS BACK TO SCHOOL !!!!
Today we will cover the "W" words and their meanings....What's a "W" word?........Scroll down:
WHAT = KAS..........Pronounced like "cuss"
WHEN = KADA........ " "KAmikaze" & "DAhlia"
WHERE = KUR.......... " "COORs", like that beer without an "s"
WHY = KODEL...... " "code" & "el" like and elevated train in Chicago
WHO = KAS.......... " see WHAT, neat, one word: two meanings, two: for the price of one...
WHOM = KURIAM.... " "COOR", "I" & "AM"
WHICH = KURIS...... " "COOR" & "IS"
WHOSE = KIENO..... " "can" and "no", o without the "n"
Note that all those common adjectives start with "W" in english and "K" in lithuanian....Why?....Because there is no "W" in Lithuanian alphabet, smart guy....
Any questions?........................okey, we will see you "next time".....or "kita karta".
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The November election is over. Did your horse win?.....Are you happy now?......I am....happy for the winners and sorry for the loosers.
In Lithuanian, November is LAPKRITIS....a mouthfull to pronounce and to remember....let's try anyway......here goes:
LA...........like in "tra la la"
P.............just plain old "p"....not pee....forget the "ee"......just "p"
KRI.........like "cript" without the "pt" on the end
TIS.........Like "tis the season to be jolly, tra la laa la laa la laa la laaaa".....okey?
LAPKRITIS is a combination of two words LAPAS(leaf) and KRITO(fell)....."Falling leaves" is what it means and leaves do fall in November.
What does NOVEMBER mean in english?...
Someone said it's NO EMBERS....meaning "no ashes"..... "V" thrown in for confusion
Others said NOVE EMBERS....meaning "new embers" or "new ashes"
But all that is guesswork....If you know the answer....post it
There are two dates in Lapkritis that are very important to our country: Nov. 11 (Veterans Day) and Nov. 25 (Thanksgiving Day)....So:
Thank the VETERANS for protecting this country on the 11th and thank GOD for blessing this country on Nov 25th...
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December is such a melodic sounding month...Don't you think?............Christmas music is in the air, malls are full of people buying presents for their loved ones and houses sport hundreds of Christmas lights. Wonderfull time of the year, simply marvelous.
In the old days there used to be only 10 months in a year. They used the metric system of counting: Deca = Ten(10).......So WHAT HAPPENED?
Well, here is what happened:.......It's those @#%$&* Roman emperors again....Julius snuck in JULY for himself and Augustus, not to be outdone, snuck in August...
I mean who's going to argue with an emperor, one bad word and he sends you to the Forum not to see the show...but to be the show.
In emperor free Lithuania they call December GRUODIS....There is no simple way to tell you how to pronounce it, so work with me on this:
G is pronounded like in Goose
R is pronounced like in Rabbit
U is pronounded like in Ups
O is pronounced like in Off
D is pronounced like in Duck
I is pronounded like in Inn
S is pronounced like in Sit
Put all those pronounciations together and you get.....GRUODIS
It means that the ground is frozen that time of the year.....I know, hardly ever in Texas but trust me, in Lithuania the ground is frozen solid.
If you enjoyed reading my definitions of Lithuanian months, let me know....
Otherwise MERRY CHRISTMAS (LINKSMU KALEDU) to you and yours and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!
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Happy New Year everyone with 2011. Not too long ago it was 2010...before that it was 2009 and 2008 and 07 etc. Hey, I can count only my spelling is so so....
JANUARY in Lithuanian is SAUSIS.......it means "dry month". Why should that matter you ask? Well it matters if the country roads are unpaved...dirt only. The earth is frozen solid and you can travel down a dirt road without getting stuck....Yes, they could have named January as the "frozen" month = SALTIS, but they didn't so let's get to the pronounciation:
SAU......like SOW (here piggy piggy) and SIS.....like SISter
Well, we are half way there. We covered JULY (post #40). AUGUST #41, SEPTEMBER #43, OCTOBER #44, NOVEMBER #46 and DECEMBER #47.
We have VASARIS(spring), KOVAS(bird), BALANDIS(morning dove), GEGUZIS(another bird) and BIRZELIS(market time) to go...
See you then...SMILE
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Yes Josehine, winters are very cold in Lithuania....Brrrrrr.......Most of Napoleons army froze to death coming back from Moscow. Lots of them were buried in Lithuania. Just a couple months ago, while excavating for a building foundation, they found a mass grave of French soldiers....
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The third month of the year in the old old days was "KARVELINIS" (pigeon) month because there were lots and lots of pigeons flying in that time of the year.
Then the 17 & 18th century european famines caused most of the pigeons to be eaten....no more pigeons....This was not lost on the "blackbirds", crow family birds, "corvus frugilegus" in Latin....They took over where pigeons left off and as a reward got the 3rd month named after them: "corvus frugilegus" or KOVAS in Lithuanian.
Smart bird this KOVAS is.....no dummy...
You may have noticed that all Lithuanian months have something to do with agriculture, ground condition and preparation....Spring months are noted by three birds arriving in this order:
1)....Kovas in the 3rd month lets you know that it is time to begin farming.
2)....Balandis (dove) in the 4th month lets you know that you are almost too late to start farming.
3)....Geguzis (coocko) in the 5th month lets you know that you are a lousy farmer and should look for another job.
Pronounce KOVAS as follows:
KO like COLA without the LA
VA like WATER without the TER
S like SISTER without the ISTER
KOVAS in english is MARCH....you knew that, but I bet you didn't know that it was named after MARS!...
Sudiev (a goodbye meaning "with God"
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As I mentioned last month, most of the pigeons got eated on account of the famines in the l7 & 18 centuries........But after a time the pigeon population recovered and they starded flying in again............What to do!!!.............The third month was already renamed KOVAS.......sooo.........in the finest Roman emperor tradition they juggled and squeezed and came up with 30 extra days between March and May and you never guess what they called it........give up?.......BALANDIS.
Balandis means "dove", it really is "pigeon" but I like "dove" better and since it is MY post, I'll call it dove.
Pronounciation:
BA.......Like baa baa black sheep
LA........Like tra la la
N.........Like nice
D.........Like duck
IS........Like "is that a nice duck or what"
So what is Balandis noted for?
Here in Texas it will be noted as HISTORIC MONTH!!!........Why?..........Because Lithuanians are going to celebrate their very first ever Lithuanian Mass in Dallas area....
Think of it.....It never happened before
......Here is the information:
WHEN..........April 28, 2011 (Thursday) at 7 pm
WHERE........HOLY CROSS Catholic Church, 7000 Morning Star Dr. The Colony, Texas 75056
After Mass we will have a snack or two, meet and greet and a Lithuanian Culture display table.......Some ladies will be wearing traditional costumes......If you have one please come wearing it.
Note this event in your calendar because it will be a long time before it happens again.
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English cockoo bird goes:........coo coo, coo coo............Lithuanian cockoo bird goes:.........ku ku, ku ku......and that's how you tell the difference between a Lithuanian cockoo bird and an English one.
In English the 5th month is May. In Lithuanian it is GEGUZIS which means cockoo bird....Why didn't the English name May COCKOO like the Lithuanians did? I don't know but it would have been such fun:
Cockoo Day (Mayday), Cockoo flower (Mayflower), Cockoo pole (Maypole), ect.
They named May after a Roman Latin goddess MAIUS. The Old French pronounced Maius as MAI and eventually it got down to us, English, as May.
Pronounciation:
GE.........like GET without the T
GU.........like GOOD without the D
Z...........like ZAZA Gabor (that actress)
IS..........like IS
Yes, that cockoo bird that works the German cockoo clock is realy Lithuanian couse he goes ku ku, but to give credit where it's due: The cockoo house, the dial and the mechanism inside is ALL German.
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I suppose you were expecting a definition and my take of JUNE?.....Yes? Well, you are not getting it because:.....WE HAVE DONE THE 12 MONTHS!!!....Believe it or not....We began with JUNE a year ago (see post 34) and here we are, back to JUNE (Birzelis) of 2011.....Wow!
There are a few things left regarding months so let's get them out of the way.....
YEAR in Lithuanian is METAS meaning a measure of time. It is mostly used in it's plural form of METAI pronounced as:
ME......like MEASURE without the ASURE
TAI.....like a TIE that goes around your neck
MONTH in Lithuanian is MENESIS. It means one lunar cycle (I think), it is pronounced as:
ME......like that popular female name MEGAN without the GAN
NES....like NEST without the T
IS......like IS
WEEK in Lithuanian is SAVAITE. I have no idea where that word came from but it is feminine in gender, it is pronounced as:
SA.....like SALUTE without the LUTE
VAI....like WHY
TE......like TERRITORY without the RRITORY
DAY in Lithuanian is DIENA. I also have no idea where that word comes from but it is used a lot, it is pronounced as:
D......like DID without the ID
IE.....like YEA
NA....Sha na na NA (remember the Village people song?)
And there are the days of the week:
PIRMADIENIS..............From the word PIRMAS meaning FIRST = Monday
ANTRADIENIS.............From the word ANTRAS meaning SECOND = Tuesday
TRECIADIENIS............From the word TRECIAS meaning THIRD = Wednesday
KETVIRTADIENIS........From the word KETVIRTAS meaning FOURTH = Thursday
PENKTADIENIS............From the word PENKTAS meaning FIFTH = Friday
SESTADIENIS.............From the word SESTAS meaning Sixth = Saturday
SEKMADIENIS.............From the word SEKMES meaning LOTS OF LUCK TO YOU AND YOURS having made it through the week = Sunday
Class dismissed, we are taking a summer break, see you all next fall....
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Lithuanian on line classes will resume this fall......Since summer ends on the 23rd of September, fall begins September 24th.....simple, no?
I, your honorable tutor and well known "know it all", am humbled by your interest in the Lithuanian language....So THANK YOU !!!
We will begin the semester with NUMBERS......First the easy ones such as 726 etc. and then get to the hard ones such as 1, 2, 3 etc.
Returning students already know what is needed to attend classes so this is for new students:....You will have to bring with you HUMOR and CURIOSITY.
See you in the fall.....
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Ring ding ding, ring ding ding, ring ding ding (SCHOOL BELL RINGING), ring ding ding, ring ding ding, ring ding ding...........
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Okay, I'm back in the saddle again, so let's get the rest of the numbers out of the way so we could play....hey...that rhymes...he he
2) Two is DU(m) pronounced like "You doo?" and DVI(f) pronounced like "we" with a "d" in front....NOT easy
Usage:
"How many?" (kiek?).....answer: Du karaliai(m) means two kings or dvi Karalienes(f) which means two queens.
3) Three is TRYS(m & f) pronounced like tree with an "s" on the end....NOTE: "Trys(3)" and "ten(10) are both m & f.....Neat eh?
Usage:
"How much it costs?".....answer: Trys(m & f) doleriai which means $3
4) Four is KETURI(m) pronounced like "cat...two...rhee" and KETURIOS(f) pronounced like "cat...two...rio...s"....That was too easy...
Usage:
"How many?".....answer: Keturi metai(m) means 4 years and Keturios(f) bonkos which means 4 bottles.
5) Five is PENKI(m) pronounced like "pen...key" and PENKIOS(f) pronounced like "pen...kiosk without the "k" on the end".
Usage:
"How many men?".....answer: Penki vyrai(m) means 5 men and "How many women?".....answer: penkios moterys.....Got it? Good.
That's all for today, the stock market is crashing and I'm loosing money.....Have to call my @#$%^&* broker....
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Off the subject for a minute..........I'm home now after sweating couple days at the brokerage house.......So I have a question for all of you that invested in US ecconomy:...........How are YOU doing?.....Up? Down? Even? or what?
Banks pay almost no interests, their CD's are not much better, real estate investments are not paying, sin taxes are killing liquer and cigarettes........So where do you invest?
Greece pays 80% interests on your money but the risk is 100%. A local credit union pays 2.9% on $100,000.......that's $2,900/yr !!!
So, short of moving to southern Patagonia, what is one to do?......Any ideas?
You think there are Lithuanians in Patagonia?...
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Back to subject:..........Why are we interested in the Lithuanian language....answer:....because we LOVE antiques and Lithuanian language is as old as it gets.....This article was published by THE NEW YORK TIMES, dated April 20, 1919:
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Cont'd post #56
6) Six is Sesi(m) & Sesios(f)...Sesi is pronounced as: SHED without the D on the end and SHE; Sesios is SHED without the D, SHOW without the W on the end and S.
Usage:
"Kiek doleriu?" (How many dollars?)...answer: SESI doleriai & "Kiek markiu?" (How many marks?)....answer: SESIOS markes.
US dollars are masculine, so are French franks, Russian rubles, Spanish pesos but German marks are feminine....go figure
7) Seven is Septyni(m) & Septynios(f)...Septyni is pronounce as: SEPTEMBER without the TEMBER, TEE like the golf peg and NY like knee.
Usage: Septyni kalnai (seven mountains) and Septynios juros (seven seas)
8) Eight is astuoni(m) & astuonios(f)...WASH without the W, THOUGHT without the GHT and KNEE
9) Nine is devyni(m) & devynios(f)...Devyni is pronounced as: (THE)(WE)(KNEE)
10) Ten is desims(m & f)....Desims is pronounced as: (THE)(SHIMS)...Shims like door or window shims
For 11, 12, 13 to 19 just add a suffix "...OLIKA to your number. Example: SeptyniOLIKA, SesiOLIKA etc.
Pronounced as POLICE without the P in front and CE, CAR without the R.
20 to 90 and 100 to 900 we will get to next time.........(It's easy)
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