vineyards

Arčar 2

12 (a) i znàeš li kvò ot tàm sa donèle bòlestite pṛ̀vo francùzite

And you know what? That’s where the first infestations came from! The French!

14 (a) osòbeno lozjàtḁ

Especially in the vineyards

18 (a) tùka nè e imàlo manà nè e imàlo nìšto

There was no sort of blight here [before], nothing at all.

20 (a) maanà takòvo nè e imàlo onì sa go donèle nìe ne smè

There was no such blight here. They brought it. Not us.

21 (a) tùka e bilò čìsto be čovèk

It was all clean here, my man,

Bela 1

18 (a) mә dà è pa to dòle ràvno ìnače tùka plàmen nasàdi

Well yes. It’s flat down there, as opposed to here [where] Plamen planted

19 (a) do kràja lòze u brèga dòle ràvno ta nasàdim domàti

vineyards along the hillside. It’s flat below, so [that’s where] I grow tomatoes,

Eremija 5

35 (c) ofčàr kopàr gradìna sàdim kòpaj lòze što tì dòe

a shepherd! A hoer! I plant the garden, dig the vineyard, whatever comes up –

Godeševo 4

17 (VZh) [Имаш ли лозе?]

[Do you have vineyards?]

18 (b) jà ne sɤ̀m sàdil i lòze n'èməm təkì ràbuti

I haven’t planted vineyards. I don’t have such things,

19 (b) ne sɤ̀m sàdil vɤ̀jš əku ìmə gròzde də àpneme

I haven’t planted [any]. Look, if there are grapes to eat,

20 (b) ili n'àštu vɤ̀jnu də pìjme še pìjme əku nè n'èməme

or if there’s some sort of wine to drink, we’ll drink! If not, we won’t.

21 (b) tùkə n'èməme lòz

But we don’t have vineyards here.

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7 (d) sigà nè məmùli s’ɛ̀ja nè lòze kupàja səmìčək nìčtu nèmə

Now I neither plant corn, nor dig the vineyard. I’m alone. There’s nothing.

Gorno Vŭršilo 1

6 (a) ami kvò sam rabotìla mi lòzje ìma:me kòpa:me žàne:me

Ah, what did I do! Well, we had a vineyard, we would dig and harvest [it].

7 (a) dvamìnata dvàese dèkara lòzje dvamìnata gi iskòpva:me i ožànva:me

The two of us did all the digging and harvesting in a vineyard [covering] twenty decares.

12 (a) a nìe kakvò sme viždàle dvàese dèkara lòzje dvamìna gi iskòpvame

But what we went through! Two of us dug out a whole fifth of a hectare of vineyard

13 (a) pròlet gi sorèm lɛ̀te trì pati gi pràšim a sɤ̀ga

We plow it in the spring, we hoe it three times in the summer, and now

Huhla 4

30 (a) grozd'ètu i tàm ìməne lòz'e gròzd'e gròzd'e v'èke sv'àt hùbəu

at the grapes. Over there we’ve a vineyard with grapes [and] the grapes are fine.

Srebŭrna 1

33 (a) às mi às òd’uw u luz’àtə i kət sə vrɤ̀štəm kòj ja utrèpɤl

I went off into the vineyard [and it was there] when I got back; [I wondered] who had killed it.

Vladimirovo 1

47 (VZh) ìma li loz’à da slàgat ə ə xòrata lòzeta ìmat li tùka

Do people plant grapevines here? Do they have vineyards here?

50 (a) lozjà ìmaše mnògò

There used to be a lot of vineyards!

52 (a) mnògo ìmaše sèki si ìmaše lozjà i pres predì da pòčnət

A lot of them. Everyone had a vineyard here before they began

53 (a) tovà pò ə ə golèmite ə ro dèkare zemjà

[to put together] those big chunks of land (= collective farms).

54 (a) ìmaa si po mà pò màlko dè ama si ìmaa òrata

People had them. On less space, but people had [their own]

55 (a) pu mà i pòslem stanàa mnògo lozjà ama seà dalì ìma lozjà

albeit less. Then came the big vineyards. But whether there are vineyards now

56 (a) vèče ne znàm sìčko sə istrèbi

I no longer know. Everything has gone to pot.

65 (a) prɤ̀skaš vrɤ̀zvəš

You spray it, you tie it [to supports] –

66 (VZh) koè e nàj trùdno ot sìčko

Which is most difficult of all [these tasks]?

67 (a) abe trùdno šò trèva mnògo kòpan’e i vrɤ̀zvan’e i ə ə filìzene

Well, what’s hard is that it requires a lot of hoeing and tying, and pruning –

68 (VZh) filìzite kvò gi pràite

And what do you do with the shoots [you’ve] pruned?

69 (a) ami tìja li filìzite pròlet prə kə frɤ̀ frɤ̀gɤme nìe

Well, these shoots – in the springtime, we – we toss them out.

71 (a) sàmo tovà si ostàime na kolcìte si tùrame kòlci še òdim vṛ̀žeme

We only leave a few, and we’ll go and tie those onto stakes we’ve put up

72 (a) m tovà lozàta i onà si gròzg’e i tè tekà

That’s the grapevine, and it [yields] grapes and there you are:

73 (a) bèreme pòslem edème pìeme vìno i tè tekà

We pick them, then we eat [them], drink wine, and that’s it.

Vŭrbovo 2

1 (a) ìmašemo lòzje tùj gòre pa ga oràmo sɤz dèdo vàn’o

We had a vineyard up the hill here, and we plowed it with Grandpa Vanyo

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