Galician stoneworkers had their own special technical language that they used between themselves. Let’s see how much you understand.

Curiously enough, some of these words seems to have been taken from Basque (possibly because they worked with Basque stonemasons). 

>English – Galician – Galician stonemason argot – Basque

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>stone – pedra – arría – harria
dog – can – chacurro – txakurra
water – auga – aureta – ur
church – igrexa – caicoa – Jaungoikoa (meaning God in Basque)
yes – si – bai – bai