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The full sentence comes from the story of
[力太郎](http://life.ou.edu/stories/chikaratarou.html).

Here it is:

> 「ばあさん や。この あか で にんぎょう を つくって みんべえ。」

I understand all the words except みんべえ, which I couldn't find in my
dictionary.

Is this an old phrase?
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words dialects auxiliaries modality role-language
meaning of みんべえ
I think it's old or a different dialect for みよう。

I will explain my reasoning as follows.

As said by @l'électeur, let's break みんべえ up into みん and べい instead.

みん will break up into みる and ん.

> みる (in this case, helps indicate to "try making")
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> ん (ねえ, which makes this 「見ん（見む ）」 in Tohoku dialect according to @Chocolate)
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> べい（[which can indicate invitation)](http://jisho.org/search/bei) = みんべい

In Tohoku dialect, 「みんべい」 is the contracted form of 「見る + べ」, meaning「みよう」。

> ばあさんや。この あか で にんぎょう を つくって **みよう** 。
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> ”Old woman. **Let's try and make** a doll from this dirt."

[Story](http://life.ou.edu/stories/chikaratarou.html)
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みんべえ is a collapsed pronunciation of みるべえ or みるべ.  
る in verbs often contracts to ん in colloquial speech when followed by some
words, eg:

> [何]{なに}[見]{み}て **る** のよ！ → [何]{なに}[見]{み}て **ん** のよ！  
>  バカなことす **る** なよ。 → バカなことす **ん** なよ。

みる here is a subsidiary verb (補助動詞) and means "try doing~~".

The べえ is a prolonged べ. べ is a sentence-final particle (終助詞) mainly used in
Tohoku dialect, meaning ～(だ)ろう, ～(で)しょう, ～(し)よう, ～(し)ましょう. Here it's used as
old man's speech (老人語), a kind of role language (役割語) in fiction.

Examples of the use of べ:

> いく **べ** 。 ≂ 行こう。 / 行きましょう。  
>  んだ **べ** 。 ≂ そうだろう。 / そうでしょう。  
>  どうすん **べ** 。/ どうすっ **べ** 。 （< どうす **る** べ）≂ どうしよう？ / どうしましょう。

So the phrase in your example can be rephrased:

> 「つくってみんべえ。」 ≂ 「つくってみよう。 / つくってみましょう。」  
>  "Let's try making~"
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