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Garvan 2

16 (b) i tè trùpət jə kəlɤ̀ s'àkuj pudìr dɤ̀ž də vìdite kò i
And they pile up the mud after each rainfall – you should see what it’s like –

17 (b) idìn pɤ̀t' xvɤ̀rliwə sigà pàk ut tàm ìdi dəždɤ̀
each time they clear it out, now comes the rain again.

Trŭnčovica 2

67 (b) də ukàl’əme bɨ̀ulete nə n’àkəde nə ednə lòkvə
“to let the water buffalo wallow in mud somewhere in some puddle,

68 (b) pə vulòvetȅ žə gi nəpoìm ili tɨ̀ žə gi zəkàrəš
and [then] water the oxen. Or [how about] you take [the oxen]

69 (b) də gi nəpuìš às kàe še unəkàl’am biul’àtə
to water them, and I,” he said, “will see the water buffalo to the mud.”

70 (b) i tɤ̀j ukàl’ɤni bɨ̀ulete kət vərɤ̀t àz kət da ti kaa
So when these “muddied” water buffalo started to move off, I – how can I tell you? –

71 (b) bàmnəw c’àlətə às ne mòə də vìdə sàmu učɨ̀te mi bleštùkət
I fell flat – boom! I couldn’t see anything. Only my eyes glittered out [to others].

72 (b) sɨ̀čku kàl tè̟ me nəpràili sè̟ kàl kà də urɤ̀
Mud everywhere – they’d made me all muddy. How was I going to plow?

Tŭrnjane 1

12 (a) do glèzena zìmno vrème kàl
… up to your ankles. And in the winter, mud.

Vŭrbina 4

92 (d) a səs sòpstvenə pɤ̀rs d’ètu gu vɨ̀kəme kàl i səs sɤ̀štijə kàl
but with local earth, or as we call it, mud – with that very mud

93 (d) grədɛ̀hme kɤ̀štite pu stàru vrème i tvà vərvɛ̀š’e i kàmeni se nemɛ̀še
we built houses in the old days. And that worked. There wasn’t stone [here].

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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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