threshing floor

Vŭglarovo 2

64 (GK) harmàne kakvò e tùj harmàne
A threshing floor. What is this “threshing floor”?

66 (a) əm m’àstu təkà
Well, it’s a place.

68 (a) kət pluštàtkə be pluštàt
Like a small encircled area, a square

71 (a) gul’àm nìj mu ìkəhmi hərmàn’i
It’s a big [space]. We call that a threshing area.

72 (c) hərmàn’ wòt’ kət òblu təkà
The threshing area – because it’s oval …

90 (a) udà žə gu nəprɤ̀skəš či slàmə
You’ll sprinkle it with water and then [put] straw …

Vŭrbina 1

1 (VZh) a na xarmàna kvo pràite
And what do you do at the threshing floor?

2 (a) nə hərmànən pàk gu pràime snòpkove snòpuv’e i i pràihme gu kuš’ìnki
At the threshing floor we make sheaves. Sheaves – and we made them

5 (a) žɨ̀tunu ustànvə nə hərmànə
the wheat is there on the threshing floor.

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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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