goats

Baskalci 1

89 (a) ne mògә dә glèәm à enà kuzà glèdәm sàmu tùka

and I can’t look after them. I just have one goat here.

90 (a) kàrәm ә pu mèn ne à glèdәm әmi òdi pu mèn

I bring it along; I don’t even look after it, it just comes along with me,

91 (a) sàmә si òdi [laughter]

it goes by itself!

175 (a) vìme vìme ìme ìme ufcàtә jà kuzàtә znàči ìmetu kugà [laughter]

“vime”, “ime” (udder) on the sheep. And look at the goat! Yes, udder. When [laughter] –

Brŭšljan 1

81 (a) zə də fkàrəš č'etirì:se pedesè ufcè segàšni ə pək tugàvə fkàrvəš'e

[room] to get in forty or fifty of today’s sheep. But back then you got in

82 (a) četrì:se pedesè kòzi flìzəhə ə ufc'ɛ̀te si lež'àə vɤ̀nkə

– forty or fifty goats went in, while the sheep lay down outside

Dolna Sekirna 3

58 (a) i nìe tùka si kràvu čùvaemo pòsle òvce kozà sìren’e

We would keep a cow here, then sheep and a goat – [for] cheese.

Eremija 1

85 (GK) àjde àjde bègaj ednò vrème ednò vrème stòkata samì si ja čùvaxte

Go off then. [So –] in the old days, did you care for the livestock alone?

86 (a) samì

[All] alone.

87 (GK) kakvà stòka

What kind of livestock?

88 (a) òfci kòzi svìn'e govèda kòn'e sìčko u ednà kɤ̀šta bèxme

Sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, horses – everything. We were all in one house –

91 (a) tì səs kozìte tì səs svin'ètu tì səs volòvetu

“You [go] with the goats, you [go] with the pigs, you [go] with the oxen,

Eremija 3

31 (a) čùvame i òfci i kòzi i kukòški i prasè i sìčko nalì

We raise sheep, and goats, and chickens, and pigs – everything, you know?

Gorna Krušica 2

22 (c) ìmame òfce ìmame kòzi

we have sheep, we have goats,

Gorno Vŭršilo 2

66 (b) ami f čàsnoto sme gledàle volòve òfci kòzi svìne

Well, in the private [era] we looked after oxen, sheep, goats, pigs –

Graševo

109 (a) stò i dvàjse ufcì ìməhmè i i usemdesè kuzì

We had one hundred twenty sheep and eighty goats.

110 (MM) òuu i tòlkova kozì

Wow, so many goats!

Huhla 4

32 (a) nɤ̀j mnògu əm ufc'è̝ kuz'è̝ gl'èdəjne əm kun'è̝ ìməh

Mostly we raised sheep and goats, and I had horses.

34 (a) nìe kràvə ìməjne əmə kəd'è kuzì duv'àhne punèže dvənàese kuzì

We had a cow. What [can you do?] We milked goats – we had twelve goats

Kovačevo 2

12 (b) òfci kòzi

Sheep, goats –

Pavelsko 1

35 (a) əm ìməhm’e vò̝l ìməhme mùl’e kràvə wòfce kò̝zi ə guv’ʌ̀də

Well, we had an ox. We had a mule, a cow, sheep, goats – well, cattle!

Salaš

85 (a) pa òfci pa kozì pa a mì nèma kvò màjka dùma

sheep, goats. We didn’t have much, but mother said,

203 (a) tekà i šùmata dàže zìmata kòj imàl mnògo živòtni po osɤmdesè kozì

that’s how you store the winter foliage if you had many animals. Eighty goats,

204 (a) dèda mi na mène ama on u drùga kɤ̀šta ostanàl

my grandfather had, but he lived in another house.

205 (a) sa imàli òsɤm po osɤmdesè kozì i osɤmdesè òvce

They had eight – eighty goats and eighty sheep,

Stakevci 4

48 (f) i pa tegàj vṛ̀vce napredèmo [laughter] vṛ̀vce ot kozète ot tovà

And then we spin the laces [laughter], laces from goats, from the [hair]

49 (f) štò se ostrižè i si napràimo vṛ̀vce

that is shorn [from them], and we make laces [for the shoes].

Stalevo 3

41 (GK) a ot kòzata

And from a goat?

42 (a) kòzte sə òšte pò r’àtku kòze̥štutu e r’àtku ml’àku

[Milk from] goats is even thinner. Goat’s [milk] is thin milk.

Šumnatica 3

173 (b) i kòze nèame i òfce pu ednà kràvə i tvà e

We don’t have goats or sheep. Just one cow [per household] and that’s it.

Tihomir 3

25 (c) dabᵊìtaci imɛ̀šon kràvᵊi òfce kuzì

We had different sorts of livestock: cows, sheep, goats –

Trjavna

27 (KP) a tùj kàk se kàzva oddòlu

And what’s this called, this down here?

30 (KP) a nè oddòlu tùj dèto

Ah no, down below. This thing that –

31 (a) à plešànki plešànki

Ah! Wattles, wattles.

32 (b) plišànki plišànki ubìčki

Wattles, wattles, little “earrings”.

56 (PSh) a slùšat li vi slùšat li vi

And do they obey you? Do they obey you?

58 (a) slùšət ni

They obey us.

60 (a) kətu im izvìkəš vednàgə ìdvət

When you call them, they come immediately.

63 (PSh) vìe si gi glèəte tàm do

You look after them there, by –

65 (PSh) do kɤ̀štata si ìma

by the house there’s – ?

66 (a) dà fkɤ̀šti ìməmi stàičkə tàm ìmə kət zimnìčkə təkòvə

Well, we have a little room in the house, sort of like a little basement,

67 (a) i tàm gi slàgəmi

and we put them there.

239 (PSh) a nə na tìja ràboti oddòlu ne ìm li vrɤ̀zvate nèštu̥

And don’t you tie something underneath these things?

240 (b) kvò də im

What should [we tie] on them?

241 (PSh) ami zvəncì

Well, bells –

245 (b) è n’àkuj mu slàgə əmə nìj ni smè im slàgəli

Eh! Someone [else might] put them on but we [never] have put them on them.

246 (b) ìmə n’àkuj im slàgət

There are some who put them on them.

250 (b) ə kvò də gi pràiš živòtni t’è sə mnògu prijàtni

So what can you do with them? [They’re] animals. They are very pleasant,

251 (b) kuzìt’e əku pìtəš pò prijàtnu ut ut čuv’èka d’èt je kàzənu

goats are, if you ask me. More pleasant than – than people, as they say.

253 (b) tò rəzbìrə mnògu rəzbìrə nàči

They understand. They understand a lot.

254 (KP) ùmno živòtno

An intelligent animal.

255 (b) ùmno dà

Intelligent, yes.

256 (PSh) i dobrì nè

And good. Not –

257 (b) dà è segà kət kàžə trɤ̀gvəme trɤ̀gvət pudìri mi

Yes. And now when I say we’re going, they set off after me.

258 (b) n’àmə dv’è p’èt n’àmə

No messing around, none of that.

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