MDV 333 · Anna Moiseevna Marmalevskaia

Marmalevskaia answers a long dialectological questionnaire, prompted by Russian or Ukrainian words and short sentences. The items include animal and body words (mouse, belly, skin), house and building terms, window glass, the colour blue, pigeon and dove, and words for sick and sleepy. Other items are comparatives and adverbs of time, religious terms (icon, cross, convert, peasant, non-Jew, honest, believer), kitchen and household words, numbers, and the word for 'then'. A few Russian-sentence translations are included, and she sometimes says she does not remember a word or that it is not Yiddish.

The catalogue says only that questions continue; the transcript shows the item types, including religious terms and sentence translation, and a few Russian-language remarks by the informant.

Closing exchange: Kerler and Katz thank Marmalevskaia, praise her memory and tease her for not wanting to sing. They ask her to sing a song her mother used to sing and discuss the Yiddish form of her first name. Kerler also remarks on what the Americans ask.