#folklore lexicon

• Gathering up act — The act of gathering up or piling and its dynamic outcome; the rural process of collecting, stacking, or building hay and agricultural products into ricks. Secondarily, it represents an archaic phonetic variant of the word 'adiere' (breeze), denoting the soft, gentle, and cool blowing of the wind across an open landscape. It is an action noun preserved exclusively in spoken folklore and dialectal monographs of north-western Transylvania.
• Regional aiding — The act of providing regional aid and its result; the regional, archaic, or popular process through which assistance, logistical support, material aid, or moral backing was granted to a household or a person facing a difficult moment; the collective manifestation of rural mutual support. As a long infinitive noun derived from the regional verb 'ajutura', the term is exclusively found in historical Transylvanian documents or old folklore collections, being fully replaced in the modern standard language by 'ajutorare'.
• Amandilea — An archaic, regional, or popular name used in certain rural communities to denote a local variety of homemade pastry, gingerbread sweetened with must or honey, or a wild plant traditionally used in the household. The term is a rare element of folkloric lexicon, preserved mainly in old dialectal layers of the Romanian language.
• Rustic hanger — A regional or archaic term used to denote a large hook, a rudimentary hanging device, or a thick spindle used in traditional peasant households for suspending tools, cauldrons, or pieces of meat in the smokehouse. In certain ethnographic areas, the word also describes a steep place or a prominent branch from which various objects can be hung.
• Raise — A regional phonetic variant or archaic form for the verb 'a ridica' (to lift/raise); the action of moving an object from bottom to top, setting it upright, building a structure from foundations, or elevating a physical or spiritual barrier. In an ethnographic-structural sense, the term is preserved in the dialects of certain rural areas, frequently used in old ballads, incantations, or during field labor for gathering harvest.
• To compare — A regional or archaic form derived from the verb 'a asemăna' (to resemble / to compare); to compare one thing to another, to find common points, structural resemblances, or identical qualities; to match. As a reflexive verb, it is used in popular speech to describe a person's action of becoming identical to someone else or putting oneself on equal footing with a high authority.
• Today — An extremely rare adverbial regionalism, specific to certain dialects in Transylvania or Maramureș, used with the meaning of 'today', 'nowadays', or 'currently'. It represents an altered phonetic variant or an archaic compound form preserved exclusively in the speech of elders or in local folklore collections to place an action in the current time.
• Covering tool — A rare regional term designating a tool, a rustic wooden shovel, a thick cloth, or a board used in rural households for covering, sealing, or tightly wrapping trenches, provision pits, or vegetable patches. In certain subdialects, the word can also describe the woman who performed the traditional task of covering and insulating grapevines or grains stored in the ground before the winter arrived.