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[merejeans]

I don't know if this is the best section to plce this question, but here goes.

I have a plate purchased at a jumble sale many years ago.
It has nothing written on the back, the front has large handpainted lowers, and the following words written
on it .-
'I FURLANS SLUNGIN LIS ORIS TOR DAL VECIO FOGOLAR'. If any one is able to truly translate it, I would be most grateful.

Many thanks in advance,

[Eve]

The last bit may be about an old open hearth/fireplace.

Furlans seems to be conected to people from the Italian Friuli region.

Oris could be golds.

[Eve]

Are you sure vecio isn't veccio as it could mean old or an old person.

[Octavius]

Something about an ornament (or perhaps piece of art or trophy/award) for the old fireplace made by the Furlan people.

[MiniN]

Translated roughly it means:

'Don't let the door hit you, where the good Lord split you'

only joking x

[gonzo00]

it's italian..it reads...only for sale as part of a multipack...lol! sorry,but couldn't resist it! :)

[dustypuss]

if you drop me consider me sold :-0

lol at gonzo00

[dundurn]

It's definitely in Friulian/Umbrian Romansch - one word puzzles me a bit. Vecio could be old, but the usual word would be vieli. Assuming it is a variant of old, the phrase reads

Friulians draw out the hours around the old fireside

[dundurn]

Vecio is definitely old - variant of standard Italian vecchio - comes up quite often with quotation marks around it in otherwise standard Italian texts - might be the equivalent to them of our writing 'auld' or 'owld' to emphasise a Scots or Irish pronunciation.

One last point, 'stretch out the hours' might be better than 'draw out'.

[merejeans]

Thanks to all of you, the answer to something I have been pondering for over thirty years - they say you learn something new every day!