Xaneiro xeadeiro. Refranes mínimos en ParemioRom

Abstract

The ParemioRom database (http://stel.ub.edu/paremio-rom/es/) is a collection of 13,213 records of weather proverbs, forty of which stand out as minimal proverbs, that is to say, ones which contain only two components, and these are from a dozen Romance varieties (Galician, Portuguese, Asturian, Castilian, Catalan, Occitan [especially Aranese], Lombard, Italian, Corsican, Sardinian and Pugliese). Considered from a thematic perspective, most of these minimal proverbs (35) contain the name of a month (January-May and August), which is always in the first part, while in the second we find a defining adjective or noun. The remaining proverbs refer to winds (4) and storms (1). Bearing in mind that all proverbs are concise by nature, this corpus is of particular importance, especially for the study of a collection of weather proverbs, which, through accumulated experience, has come to fruition in the utmost precision reflected in these forty minimal proverbs.