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German
- pierona
- Perronje, Perrunje, Pieronie, Pierunie, Pirona, Pironie, Pironje, Pirunie, Pirunje, Pjeronje, Pjerunje
Etymology
Borrowed from Silesian pierōn (“lightning”), from Proto-Slavic *perunъ.
Pronunciation
Interjection
Pierona!
- (archaic, Silesia) damn!, blimey!; exclamation stereotypical for the German speech of eastern Silesia, which was a form of Standard German influenced by Slavic as well as (western) Silesian German dialects
before 1955, Erich Hoinkis, “Gute Forseze für den Neuen Jahr”, in Albrecht Baehr, editor, Schlesien wie es lachte, Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Weidlich, published 1975, page 76:Also nimmst du dem Album mit die ganzen Bilder fon die Medchen und den ganzen Haufen Briefe, was haben sie geschrieben wegen die ewige Treue und so weiter ganzem Unfuk, und steckst du ihm bei Ofenloche und zindst du ihm an und sagst du: »So! Pierona! Da is ihm aber auch Gottseidank Schluß damit!«- So you take the album with all the pictures of the girls and the whole heap of letters that they wrote about eternal fidelity and so on all that nonsense, and you put it in the oven mouth and you light it and you say: “So! Blimey! That’s also over thank goodness!”