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birb

language: Veps

part of speech: Noun (singularia tantum)

phonetic variants: bir’b (Northern Veps); bir’ b’ (Central Eastern Veps, Central Western Veps, Southern Veps)


1 meaning

concept: shoe-thread
  • Russian: дратва, просмолёная нить, употребляемая в старину для шитья обуви
  • English: shoe-thread; wax end

translation

Livvi: birbe; virbi

Ludian: birbi; bir’b

Karelian Proper: birbi; virb; virbi; virpi

dialects of usage: Central Western Veps

wordforms (46)

birb (-in, -id)