hunting

64 (a) tòlko sìren’e mlèko kaškavàl sɤm pravìla ma stàrɤcɤt mi lovdžìja

I’ve made so much cheese, milk, kashkaval! My husband is a hunter,

65 (a) dòjdu lovdžìje ìma li kaškavàl pràveno e pa ìma

and hunters come [and ask] “Is there [newly] made kashkaval?” “There is.”

73 (a) i onò go ot svàta sèla poznàvaše xòrata mòjɤt stàrɤc dèka lovdžìja

Everyone in all the villages knew my husband, who’s a hunter.

75 (a) e pa mnògo doòdeju

And they came by a lot.

76 (VZh) e onì kvò su bìli po tòj u u gorùtu

What would they go after in the forest?

77 (VZh) kvò e imàlo ta da

What was there to –

78 (a) ama divè svìn’e sṛ̀ne zàjci e tekòva ama pòveče

Ah, wild boar, deer, rabbits, and such. But mostly

79 (a) divè svìn’e i zàjci tèpaju

they would kill wild boar and rabbits.

88 (a) ìdu razdèluju lovdžìjete od dèka vèče nèmaše lovdžii

Hunters go out, sharing [the hunt]. There was hardly a place from which hunters

89 (a) dèka ne ìdeše tùka na tàm ta vràpča te ta elòv.dòl

didn’t come here. [They came from] Vrabcha, from Elov Dol,

90 (a) ta odrànica ta gòrna.sekìrna ta svì znàeše svì čovèci

or Odranitsa, or Gorna Sekirna. All of them knew [him], all the men.

93 (VZh) è onì su tekà lovdžiete onì se znàju

Well, that’s the hunters’ way. They know one another.

36 (GK) ne gì li lov'àxa ednò vrème tìja

Didn’t they hunt them in the old days, these – ?

37 (a) kədè če go fàneš onò nòšno vrème

Well, how are you going to catch one?! It’s nocturnal!

39 (a) nòšno vrème denèska nè

[It comes out] at night, not [during] the day.

40 (GK) kapàn nèšto

[Couldn’t you use] some sort of trap?

41 (a) kòj če mu i da tùriš kapàn ne gò znàeš

Who’ll [get] him [like that]? Even if you lay a trap, you don’t know

42 (a) kadè da o če mìne sèkade mìne

where it’ll pass by. It goes everywhere!

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