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Search: tal’asi. 1 total hits in 1 transcripts.
The weasel (1)
{a?} solö gune:-ni “mäwa-wa-ni tal’asi-ze-mi, jeu=de anči.”
weasel say.PST-3SG heart-ACC-3SG eat:raw-SBJV-1SG what=FOC no
weasel сказать.ПРОШ-3ЕД сердце-АКК-3ЕД eat:raw-СОСЛ-1ЕД что=ФОК no
What? The weasel said: «I will eat his heart raw, there is nothing else left.”
А? Колонок говорит: «Съем его сердце сырым, больше ничего не осталось.
The verb "tal'asi-" (cf. Russian dialectal талахонить) meant ‘to eat fish or meat raw, finely cut with salt’. This is why the weasel had a knife and salt.