List of colloquial expressions in Honduras
Alberto de Jesús Membreño
Francisco Cruz Castro
List of colloquial expressions in Honduras concerns Spanish language expressions which are unique to Honduras.
In 1899, Alberto de Jesus Membreño published the first Honduran Dictionary with the title "Hondureñismos. Provincial vocabulary of Honduras".[1] It contained mostly of the words and expressions found in the book La Botica Village by Francisco Cruz Castro. In the twenty-second edition of the Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy of 2001, the Academia Hondureña de la Lengua contributed 2,782 hondureñismos to the dictionary up from 302 in 1992.
Hondureñismos
- Bolulo: Bread roll (La Ceiba)
- Cipote/a: boy/girl
- Güirro/a: boy/girl
- Trucha: Corner shop
References
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