B 3ACTEHKE?

[Kevin Windle]

In its Polish form zaścianek it has a similar historical sense to the Belarusan. It is rendered in Stanislawski's dictionary as 'yeomen's settlement' (okolica szlachecka).



See also Dal' for older senses of the Russian word, mentioning Polish: khutor, odinokii poselok na pustoshi, vne obshchei krest'ianskoi mezhi.



Kevin Windle





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"Zastenak" has several meanings.

In Belarusian (and Kaunas belongs to the Belarusian-Lithuanian linguistic

area) it can be:

1. prison;

2. a small and impoverished estate, similar to "хутор" ("засцянковая шляхта"

- small nobility which did not have the land of its own and had to rent);

3. a village type which emerged in the 16th century: see

http://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BA



Most probably, if someone was born "v zastenke" followed by a proper name,

this should be translated as "in the village of..."



e.g.



2010/9/2 J F Levin <ameliede at earthlink.net>



> Colleagues:

> I just got a query from the manager of one of the Jewish genealogy lists

> regarding a translation being done

> of some archival material i Kaunas.  The translator translated "v zastenke"

> as "in the torture chamber" followed

> by a place name.  I could not find zastenok in online Dal', and of course

> in my Ozhegov it seems to mean more or

> less that.  But the gentleman who sent the query and I are both sceptical.

> I assume this is a 19th Century record, what could it be?  Could it have

> just meant something like "punishment cell"

> in a prison?

> Jules Levin

> PS  Don't let the "Cyrillic" on the subject line fool you.  I cannot write

> Cyrillic in eudora--it was cleverly made entirely

> from the Latin keyboard.  So please transliterate if you cite from a

> Russian source.

>

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