roasting on a spit

Leštak 1

76 (VZh) [laughter] a kàk se prài š tovà čevermèto
[laughter] And how do you do this roasting on a spit?

83 (a) tùri sə nə ədìn prɤ̀t i sə vərtì
And then you put it on a stick and it revolves

84 (VZh) sàmo àgne ìli təkòva
Only lambs? Or these –

85 (a) stàvə i t’èle i òfcə i kòzə sìčku stàvə
[It also] works [with] a calf, or a sheep, or a goat. It’ll work [with] everything.

86 (a) sàmu gul’àmu živòtnu ne mòž də stàne
It’s only a big animal [that it] won’t work [with]

87 (b) kràvə ne mòže
You can’t do it [with] a cow.

88 (a) dò pedesè šejsè kilugràmə štòm e mesòtu stàvə
Up to fifty or sixty kilograms, given that it’s meat, is OK.

89 (a) uttàm nəgòre ne mòže tèšku e zə vərtène
Any more than that isn’t possible. It’s [too] heavy to revolve.

Šumnatica 3

169 (VZh) a čeverm’à pràix pràixte li
And do you roast meat on a spit? Did you do that?

170 (a) čeverm’à ut kənà də pràime kòjtu ìmə òfce prài čeverm’à
Spit roast? What would we do it with? Those who have sheep do it.

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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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