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_ The village Sasashi is a good village.

_ sopel sasāš xoča sopel li.

There are many educated people, academics, professors.

xûāy nator māre ari, aḳademiḳosal, ṗropesoral.

At the head there is a good resort place - Muashi.

xoča muāši agaraḳ txum li.

Good sour water flows through Sasashi.

gušgûey sasāšisa xoča sgim anġri.

This sour water àthey had not known anything about this sour wateràAnd a Svan man was ploughing in a meadow

ale sgim, desa xaxlēnax al sgimi arseboba, i ləmqāninx muaši larēlisa mušûan māre

and this time bulls went aside and began drinking something with great pleasure.

i am dros k'ēmčedx qanar i ž'assḳōdenax imiġenan.

He could not get them away from it by any means; this man could not get them away from it; he shouted:"Come on, get away, come on, get away", - and he went up to them.

deš imži xaq̇ûle, deš xaq̇ûle ale māre, xoṭṭāni: "mo, aš, mo, aš", _ i k'ēmčedeli.

Sour water was running here rapidly and bulls could not get away, they were drinking it.

turme anġri lapurcxunušû amečūnen sgim i qanar dem xeq̇ûlēnix, eyži itrex.

The man went up, tasted it and guessed that the sour water was running.

k'āčad al māre, atsinǯāûe i sgim anġri.

Then this resort was place was called "Muashi".

ečānġo ž'esžaxex al agaraḳs muāš.

They made holiday houses there even then, when I was a child.

ečečūnen ž'ānsq̇ex dasasûenebel koral uḳûe mi er bōpš xûas.

Muashi was a famous resort place.

muāš las cnobil agaraḳ.

People from Tbilisi, Kutaisi, from all over West Georgia, from all sides used to go there on holiday.

tbilisxen, kutāšxen, mtel dasaûlet sakartûeloxen, čīxen, damsûeneblar anġrə̄dax.

There were flats, wooden flats there.

binēl ardax, picri binēl.

When there was no more place for lodging, they used to build huts nearby and to live in them.

ečēsa er doš xasḳə̄dax, pacxēls xagmə̄da i al pacxēlisa cxoûrobden.

There were dining -rooms there, holiday-houses, pioneer camps.

sasadilo ensq̇ānda eče, damsûeneblar... ṗionerta banaḳar.

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Such a place was Muashi, such a place was it, that on Saturdays and Sundays people from nearby villages,

eǯḳay lārda las muāš, eḳay lārda las, ere šaû... sapṭins i məšladeġ mtel axlomaxlo soplārxen,