trimming corncobs

Zabernovo

17 (a) o sea nìe pòčneme nə i jə čùkəhme ednò vrɛ̀me nə tàrgi
[then] we begin – in the old days we’d hack [the stems from the cobs] on grid racks

20 (VZh) [Със какво я чукахте?]
[How did you hack it?]

21 (a) sòpi sòpi sòpi mə təkìvə dərvètə dà
With cudgels. Cudgels, cudgels. [For] such trees, yes.

22 (a) gul’ɛ̀mi sòpi kuìtu id idvàm gi dìgahə i
Big cudgels, [so big] that they could hardly lift them.

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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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