Kalinka

[Edward Dumanis]

David Burrous wrote:

> Dorogiye Seelangtsy:
> I always thought that "Kalinka" meant "snowball bush".  And, I thought
> that a snowball bush was a bush that blooms in the spring about the same
> time as lilacs with big balls of tiny white flowers.  (As a kid we used
> to throw them at each other like snowballs.)  Well, when I took some to
> school to show my students while we were singing "Kalinka", a Russian
> from Tadjikistan soundly informed me that kalinka was something other
> than what I had brought to class.  So, what is kalinka really?
> Thanks.
>
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Let me add my two cents in support of Yurij Lotoshko.
I would never imagine that in a well-known, I hope, song "Kalina krasnaja,
 kalina vytsvela," "krasnaja" stands for
"krasivaja."  And vytsvetanije (rather fading than withering) is unlikely to be
 associated with snowballs.

Edward Dumanis