Tuvan English

noun phrase black-throated thrush

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Scientific name: Turdus atrogularis

noun phrase one of the names of a shaman hat

Speaker: Simchit 2010, page 52

noun phrase black coat

Speaker: Simchit 2010, page 47

noun phrase black shaman’s drum

Speaker: Simchit 2010, page 47

noun phrase black tambourine

Speaker: Simchit 2010, page 47

noun phrase black sky

Speaker: Simchit 2010, page 86

noun phrase shaman from the black sky (world)

Speaker: Simchit 2010, page 29

noun phrase carrion crow

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Scientific name: Corvus corone

noun phrase black soul (which guards the grave of a dead person)

noun phrase black (dark) hell

Speaker: Simchit 2010, page 97

noun phrase paralysis

noun phrase black shaman

Speaker: Simchit 2010, page 29

noun phrase prohibited direction of funerals (literally mouth of a black dog)

noun phrase tree with black trunk

noun common starling

Scientific name: Sturnus vulgaris

[kara-bažyŋ] n. jail, prison

Source: First edition

[kara-bažyŋnattyrgan] n. prisoner

Source: First edition

[kara-bažyŋnattyrgan] n. prison-er

Source: First edition

[kara-byt] n. flea

Source: First edition

[kara-byt, khalyyr-kara] n. flea

Source: First edition

noun phrase black sky

[kara-kuš] n. wood-grouse

Source: First edition

noun phrase black (dark) forces

noun phrase black redstart

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Scientific name: Phoenicurus ochruros

[kara-seek] n. see

Source: First edition

[kara-seek, seek] n. fly

Source: First edition

noun phrase black woodpecker

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Scientific name: Dryocopus martius

noun phrase black astronomy

noun phrase black asronomy

noun phrase a kind of a dragon (literally dark motley dragon)

Speaker: Simchit 2010, page 111

[kara(ŋgy)-kök] a. dark blue

Source: First edition

[karaanyŋ ajany] n. look

Source: First edition

[karaanyŋajany] n. look

Source: First edition

[karaža] n. loss

Source: First edition

[karazyyr] v. suspect

Speaker: Sasha

[karak] n. eye

Source: First edition

verbal phrase teach a young shaman (literally - open someone’s eyes)

Speaker: Simchit 2010, page 26

[karak šili] n. glasses (eyeglasses)

Source: First edition

[karak šoruu] n. vision

Speaker: Sasha

noun phrase under world / hell (literally dark world / universe)

[karandaš] n. pencil

Source: First edition

noun phrase allegorical name of a shaman (literally - a person who sees what other people can’t see)

Speaker: Simchit 2010, page 24

[karaŋgy] a. dark

Source: First edition

[karaŋgy] n. darkness

Source: First edition

noun phrase dark under world

Speaker: Simchit 2010, page 96

[karbaš kylyr] v. flap

Source: First edition

[kargaar, kargyš salyr] v. damn

Speaker: Sasha

[kargyraa] n. throat singing style, the deepest most guttural of the four basic styles

Source: First edition

[kargyraa, khöömej, borbaŋnadyr, sygyt, ezeŋgiler] n. throat singing

Source: First edition

noun curse

Speaker: Simchit 2010, page 27