Help with "uzyvnyi"

[Edward M Dumanis]

It seems that no one has answered that yet.
Let me try then.
"Uzyvnyj" comes from "uzyvat'" which is a form from "zvat'."
For example, see Vladimir Dal's dictionary for "zvat'."
It is on-line:
http://slovari.yandex.ru/art.xml?art=dal/dal/03072/59300.htm&encpage=dal&mrkp=http%3A//hghltd.yandex.com/yandbtm%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A//encycl.yandex.ru/texts/dal/dal/03072/59300.htm%26text%3D%25F3%25E7%25E2%25E0%25F2%25FC%26reqtext%3D%25F3%25E7%25E2%25E0%25F2%25FC%253A%253A1819103916%26%26isu%3D2
One can find there "uzovi" as an example ("uzovi ego s soboju" meaning
"call him to attract and take him away with you"). So, "uzyvnyj" is
someone or something who/which calls to attract and takes away.

The Bal'mont's sonnet is dated 1916.
Interstingly enough is that Vyacheslav Ivanov used both words "demon" and
"uzyvnyj" -- however, not in the same line -- ten years before Bal'mont in
his poem "Vyzyvanije Vakkha" (1906).

See
http://www.litera.ru/stixiya/authors/ivanovV/all.html

Sincerely,

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Donald Loewen wrote:

> Greetings!
> Could anyone help me with the translation of óçûâíûé (uzyvnyi), found in 
> the opening stanza of Bal'mont's sonnet "Lermontov"?
> Thanks for any leads,
> Don Loewen
> 
> here's the stanza:
> 
> Îïàëüíûé àíãåë, ñ íåáîì ðàçëó÷åííûé,
> Óçûâíûé äåìîí, ðàçëþáèâøèé àä
> Âåòðîâ è áóðü áåçäîìíûé ñòðàííûé áðàò,
> Äóøîé âíèìàâøèé ïåñíå çâåçä âñåçâîííûé,
> 
> -- 
> Donald Loewen
> Assistant Professor of Russian
> Dept. of German, Russian and East Asian Languages
> Binghamton University (SUNY)
> 
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