Votian proverbs

Votian (or Votic) is a language spoken in Ingria.

E

 * e̮ma silmiz ed näe irttätŝi, a te̮izē silmɨz näed i pikkaraizē roitū.
 * English equivalent: You see the splinter in another's eye but fail to see the beam in your own.
 * "Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that."
 * Charles Spurgeon, Gleanings Among the Sheaves, Humility.


 * e̮una e̮unassa kaukālē eb lankē.
 * Idiomatic translation: The apple does not fall far from the tree.
 * Meaning: Children observe daily and — in their behaviour — often follow the example of their parents.
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I

 * Ikä ühs on omā onnē pällä seppä.
 * English equivalent: Every man is the smith of his own fortune.

K

 * Kem kḛrtā, mittā, sīz leikkā.
 * Idiomatic translation: Measure thrice, cut once.
 * Meaning: One should always act only after due consideration. A hasty action may involve an improper consideration of important aspects.
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M

 * Millen emä, mokom i tütär.
 * Translation: Such mother, such daughter.
 * English equivalent: Like mother, like daughter.
 * Meaning: Daughters may look and behave like their mothers. This is due to inheritance and the example observed closely and rarely.
 * Source for meaning and proverb:


 * Millin isä, mokomain pokatsi.
 * Translation: Such father, such son.
 * English equivalent: Like father, like son.
 * Meaning: Sons may look and behave like their fathers. This is due to inheritance and the example observed closely and daily.
 * Source for meaning and proverbs:

T

 * Tŝen ep tī, se ep sǖ.
 * Idiomatic translation: He that will not work, shall not eat.
 * Meaning: Without due effort one is not entitled to the fruits of the work.
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U

 * ühessä ke̮rvassa kūlen, te̮ize̮ṡ vällä lazzen.
 * Translation: In at one ear and out at the other.
 * English equivalent: Advice most needed are the least heeded.
 * "The best among you are those who are best to their wives."
 * Muhammad narrated in Ibn Majah, #1978, and Al-Tirmizi, #3895.

V

 * Vassen mätla ain parapassi pühiB.
 * Translarion: A new broom always sweeps better.
 * English equivalent: A new broome sweepeth cleane.
 * Meaning: "We should never use an old tool when the extra labor in consequence costs more than a new one. Thousands wear out their lives and waste their time merely by the use of dull and unsuitable instruments."
 * Alternate meaning: "We often apply it to exchanges among servants, clerks, or any persons employed, whose service, at first, in any new place, is very good, both efficient and faithful; but very soon, when all the new circumstances have lost their novelty, and all their curiosity has ceased, they naturally fall into their former and habitual slackness."
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