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Glavanovci 2

52 (a) da se rabòti sɤs sekìru i sɤs ə teslù i sɤs svè
to work with an axe and an adze, and all,

Glavanovci 3

32 (VZh) slagàli li sa nèkoj pɤ̀t sekìru tè takà
Did you sometimes put an axe like this,

33 (VZh) nagòre s òstroto da ne vàli
with the sharp edge up so that it wouldn’t rain?

34 (a) da ne da ne ma da sɤ̀pre dɤ̀žɤt turàli smo i tùramo
To not – to not – to stop the rain? We did, and we do.

35 (b) nìe go pràvime
We do that.

37 (a) i nòž zabìemo da sɤ̀pre dɤ̀žɤt i sekìru obṛ̀čamo sɤs
And we thrust a knife [in the ground] to stop the rain, and whet the axe with –

Leštak 3

46 (e) səz bràdvə sə nəsìč’ə
You chop it up with an ax.

Malevo/Asg 1

71 (b) z bràdva
With an ax.

72 (a) səz bràdvə nə dnò dʌ̀rvu tə də sə pò kʌ̀si
– with an ax and a chopping block, to make them shorter,

Malevo/Asg 2

39 (b) sled məgàretu tùr’e bràdvəta i triònə kàč’əm se nə səmàrə nə məgàretu
following the donkey, pile on the ax and the saw, and mount the donkey’s packsaddle,

Nasalevci 2

65 (a) na trùp ednò dṛ̀vo takà debelò i sɤs sek’ìra
On [some] tree-trunk. A piece of wood this thick – you [cut it] with a “sekira” (ax),

66 (a) bràdva li se òka sek’ìra li nìe sek’ìra
or a “bradva” (ax), as they say. We call it “sekira”,

67 (a) pa kòj
but as to who …

68 (GK) sekìra
“Sekira”.

69 (a) òka bràdva ne znàm
… calls it “bradva”, I don’t know.

70 (BR) sekìra
“Sekira”.

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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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