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Thursday, September 10, 2009
Aixoplugar
I came across this Catalan word today meaning to shelter from the rain. It can be used reflexively, aixoplugar-se, to take shelter from the rain. This dictionary says it comes ultimately from the word espluga (cave), very similar to the English word spelunking. An example sentence I found on the Internet: La primera explica que amb una tempesta es va aixoplugar a la casa una pastora que buscava les seves cabres per la zona. Translation: The first one explains that with the storm she took shelter from the rain at the house of a shepherd who was looking for her goats around the area. You can't get more concise than this.
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Do you know the Japanese word for this? ;-)
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