B 3ACTEHKE?

[Anna Frajlich-Zajac]

Bravo!!
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On Sep 2, 2010, at 8:54 PM, Kevin Windle wrote:

> 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).
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> See also Dal' for older senses of the Russian word, mentioning  
> Polish: khutor, odinokii poselok na pustoshi, vne obshchei  
> krest'ianskoi mezhi.
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> Kevin Windle
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures  
> list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Elena Gapova
> Sent: Friday, 3 September 2010 10:06 AM
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] B 3ACTEHKE?
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> "Zastenak" has several meanings.
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> In Belarusian (and Kaunas belongs to the Belarusian-Lithuanian  
> linguistic
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> area) it can be:
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> 1. prison;
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> 2. a small and impoverished estate, similar to  
> "хутор" ("засцянковая шляхта"
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> - small nobility which did not have the land of its own and had to  
> rent);
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> 3. a village type which emerged in the 16th century: see
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> http://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%BD% 
> D0%B0%D0%BA
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> Most probably, if someone was born "v zastenke" followed by a  
> proper name,
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> this should be translated as "in the village of..."
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> e.g.
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> 2010/9/2 J F Levin <ameliede at earthlink.net>
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>> Colleagues:
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>> I just got a query from the manager of one of the Jewish genealogy  
>> lists
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>> regarding a translation being done
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>> of some archival material i Kaunas.  The translator translated "v  
>> zastenke"
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>> as "in the torture chamber" followed
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>> by a place name.  I could not find zastenok in online Dal', and of  
>> course
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>> in my Ozhegov it seems to mean more or
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>> less that.  But the gentleman who sent the query and I are both  
>> sceptical.
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>> I assume this is a 19th Century record, what could it be?  Could  
>> it have
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>> just meant something like "punishment cell"
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>> in a prison?
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>> Jules Levin
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>> PS  Don't let the "Cyrillic" on the subject line fool you.  I  
>> cannot write
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>> Cyrillic in eudora--it was cleverly made entirely
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>> from the Latin keyboard.  So please transliterate if you cite from a
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>> Russian source.
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