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* adio - goodbye - doviđenja (addio: meaning in Italian goodbye)

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* adojat - to please (aldojat: meaning in Romance Dalmatian ''to feel at home, to be settled'')

* afitat - rent ('''Venetian Italian''': afìt)

* aimemeni ''or'' ai me meni - poor me ''or'' oh dear!

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* alavia - done properly ''or'' it's Ok! - u redu

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* alavia - done properly ''or'' it's Ok!, just right - u redu (Romance Dalmatian ''just right'')

* apoteka - pharmacy (Venetian: apoteca, Greek: Apotheke)

* arbol - ship's mast (In Venetian it means ''tree'')

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* bobon - lolly

* boca - bottle - flaša (Venetian: boca)

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* bome - of course - naravno to please (Romance Dalmatian)

* bonaca - the sea is dead calm (Venetian: bonàça)

* botilja - bottle ('''Romance Dalmatian''': ''botaila'')

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* buža - hole - rupa (Venetian: bus ''or'' buxa)

* cilo - wine without water - vino bez vode

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* cima - rope’s end (also called bitter end); rope put overboard; edge, end or tip of something. Origin: The earliest record of the term is the Italian - cima, at the beginning of the 17th century. <ref>Lingua Franca in the Dalmatian Fishing and Nautical Terminology

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* cima - rope’s end (also called bitter end); rope put overboard; edge, end or tip of something. Origin: The earliest record of the term is the Italian - cima, at the beginning of the 17th century. <ref>Lingua Franca in the Dalmatian Fishing and Nautical Terminology by J.Božanić</ref>

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by J.~~Božani~~</ref>

* cukar - sugar - šečer (Venetian: sucaro)

* čakule - gossip

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* daž - rain - kiša

* '''Defora''' in old Venetian means ''"from the outside"''.

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* denti - teeth - zubi (Romance Dalmatian)

* dobota - nearly - (Venetian: dedoto ''or'' doboto)

* dreto - straight (Romance Dalmatian: drat)

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* Di - where - gdje

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* di - where - gdje

* dite - child - djete

* Di greš?- Where are you going?

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* fabrikat - to trick

* falso - fake (Venetian: falso "liar")

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* farmacia - pharmacy - Apoteka (Romance Dalmatian: drat)

* fatiga - work - radi

* febra - fever

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* forma - shape (Venetian: forma)

* fraja - to go out and have a good time (Venetian: fraja-happy company ''or'' happy bunch)

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* fratar - brother - brat (Romance Dalmatian)

* frigati - to fry (Romance Dalmatian: fregur)

* frižul - a spot to have a chat (within the town, Romance Dalmatian: faul ''or'' faular, meaning to speak)

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* kužina - kitchen - kuhinja (Venetian: cuxìna)

* kužin - cousin - rođak (Venetian: cuxìn)

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* lacun - bed sheets (Romance Dalmatian: lenzul)

* lamin - sheetmetal bucket

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* licenca - licence - dozvola (Venetian: icenca)

* lipo - nice ''or'' beautiful - ljepo

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* očetavat - to unhook, sort out

* mahnit - crazy, unstable, nuts

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* panja - bread - kruh

* papit - this ''word'' is used when feeding a child - jedi djete (Venetian: papa-means ''baby food'')

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* patakuni - small change - mali/sitni novac (Romance Dalmatian)

* patalone - pants

* perun - fork (Venetian: pirón ''from'' [[Greece|Greek]]: pirouni)

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* zeje - local dish

* zamuti - to stir

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* Za fatigu je just - For work he is perfect - Za posao je izvrstan

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* Zapiha sam se - I've lost my breath

* zrcalo - mirror - ogledalo

* žeja - thirsty (the ž is pronounced zh)

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