google/who is a Slavic speaker

[Deborah Hoffman]

Sorry - kayin is "chew" in Yiddish run through a Carpathian accent (as opposed to the one taught by the proper folks at YIVO). 
   
  I don't know whether kayin is the most proper transliteration, but there is more of a vowel separation/second syllable there than is heard in the German kein. Ka-in? With the "ah" turning slightly "ee" before it completely gets to the second vowel?
   
  I've wondered about the double negative. One hears "Hoch mir nicht kein chainik" (Don't bang my kettle/rattle my cage") but it may be regional. Any Litvaks out there?
   
   
  >Date:    Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:33:16 -0500
>From:    "colkitto at rogers.com" <colkitto at ROGERS.COM>
>Subject: Re: to google/should be who is a Slavic speaker?
>
>Isn't "kayin" rather "kauen" - chew (cognate with zhevat, of course)?
>
>"nicht kein" would sound very odd in German, and I suspect, Yiddish as
 >well 
>
>Original Message:
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  >>te: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:14:20 -0600
>>To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] to google/should be "who is a Slavic speaker?"
>>Except that "kayin" is a negative (akin to nikakoi in Russian) and not
> a verb...
>>So it should probably stay where it is, modifying "chooingam"...
   
   

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