Roma (Gypsies)

Kolju Marinovo 3

68 (a) i sə nəbìti səs inò inì krèməni pràvea gi

And then it’s got this, these flintstones pounded into it. [Who] used to make them?

69 (a) tùrci̥t’e li bèši cìgəni li b’àhə ne znàm ne mòə vi kàžə

Was it Turks? Was it Gypsies? I don’t know, I can’t tell you.

Kolju Marinovo 6

1 (a) znàjš kəkvò je ìməše inì cìgən’i im vìkəmi lìnguri

You know what? There were these gypsies: we call them “wooden-spoon [makers]".

17 (a) tòj nə cigùl’kə zème si cìgənski kiminčètə im vìkəmi nìj

He’s playing violin – the Gypsy kind. We call them “kemanche’s”

Kruševo 3

73 (RA) jə jə jə jə a boì otkədè gi zèmaš

Yes, yes, yes, yes. But where do you get your dyes from?

74 (a) ut cìgənkìt’e̥

From gypsy women.

96 (a) ud òreòvu təkà bujədìsu̥vàme pə ìnəč’è si kupòvəme bujà

… from walnuts. We’d make those dyes. Otherwise we buy colors

97 (a) ud məgəzìnetu ut cìgənkìte kupùvəme

from the store, and we buy them from gypsy women.

Oborište 2

132 (MM) dà dà po n’àkoj selà fàštat cìganče da bɤ̀de

Yes, yes. In some villages they get a gypsy girl to be –

133 (a) nìe ne smè pravìle

We did not do [that]

135 (a) nìe cìgane

We don’t …

137 (a) n’àməme

… have any gypsies.

Stoilovo 2

37 (a) nәglәbènu pri cìgan’e gu dadɤ̀t tә im nәpràjәt dikàn’әtә

Hollowed out, by gypsies. It’s given to them, and they make the threshing board.

38 (a) tәkòәt krèmen’:te̥ tә i nәpràjәt i nìe tùva pòčneme i vɤršè̝me

They fix it up with flintstones, and make it, and then we begin the threshing.

Sŭrnica 2

55 (a) zə buedìsvənetu si zìmme bujɤ̀ ut cìgənkìte i limòntuzù si zìməme

For the dyeing you get dyes from gypsy women, and we [also] get lemon salt

Sveta Petka 3

61 (e) hràniž gu i tuvà e pò rànu pà dètu pə vrɤšème pà

you feed him, and that’s all. Earlier on, well – when we were threshing, well,

62 (e) cìgəne čergàre doòždaa dètu vrɤšème žitòtu

these gypsies, these nomads would come when we were threshing grain.

63 (MM) dà i kakvò pràv’ɤt cìganite

Yes, and what do the gypsies do?

Vŭrbina 3

88 (a) mu klədɤ̀t pàl’ešnik nə jəgùptene iskuvàtu i uràlunu izd’èlənu esèj

They put a plowshare on it, forged by Gypsies, and the plow is shaped like this

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