dark bread

Belica 2

67 (a) i edèm čèr lèp ne edèm kato segà bèl
and eat black bread. We wouldn’t eat white bread, like [they do] now.

107 (MM) čèren
… [you mill flour for] dark [bread]

115 (a) čèr lèp po ednà nedèl'a òpečà go f ponedèlnik pa pà
… black bread once a week. I bake it on Monday, and then again

116 (a) f ponedèlnik takìva samùne čèrni ama nèma azmɤ̀ da fàne mu:lɤ̀
on Monday – these dark loaves, that aren’t damp [?], that don’t get moldy

117 (a) nèma da isɤ̀xne ami mèko i ùbavo i te tè takà
and won’t dry out but rather [stay] soft and nice. And there it is.

Gela 2

27 (b) rɤ̀žen lɛ̀p čèrɤn
Rye bread – dark [bread].

28 (a) čèrɤn lɛ̀p sɨìrɤne f tulùmɤ stòr'enu əmə gà udrɛ̀žeš
Dark bread, white cheese made in skin bags. When you cut off

29 (a) rɔ̀žen lɛ̀p fəlìja ta gu ugrɛ̀eš i s enekvà sᶤìrɤne
a slice of rye bread and heat it up with this white cheese,

30 (a) kəkɔ̀f bɛ hùbəf a zgà nѐ̝ma tɤštɤm'èlɤ nèma
it was so nice. But now not even a single tablecloth.

Glavanovci 1

11 (a) ma ama ot ečmìkɤt mnògo e cṛ̀n mnògo e cṛ̀n lèbɤt
But bread from barley is very dark. Very dark bread

12 (a) blàg ìnače ama cṛ̀n limɤ̀c ama segà e prekràsno
It was tasty otherwise, but black. But spelt – It’s magnificent now.

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Recommended Model for Citations

Bulgarian Dialectology as Living Tradition [2016] (http://www.bulgariandialectology.org, visited on 1 March 2016)
Babjak 1: 13-15. In: Bulgarian Dialectology as Living Tradition [2016] (http://www.bulgariandialectology.org, visited on 1 March 2016)

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