Пречистая мать, х од и к нам у-хать.

[Olga Safronova]

Dear Laura,



I strongly believe that it's not a variant 3) and do not think it's 1). What
I really think is that the right answer is 2). But it also seems from the
context of the phrase that the last 4) variant has also has right to exist
as it looks like it is some noise connected with wooing process. I guess it
comes from some old traditional ritual but unfortunately I can't tell what
ritual exactly.


But I'm not a philologist.


BR,

Olga Safronova

St. Petersburg, Russia


On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Laura Goering <lgoering at carleton.edu>wrote:

> Dear Seelangers,
>
> I apologize for relaunching a translation query I posted under another
> subject line, but now that I have received four drastically different
> answers, I'm not sure what to think.
>
> The sentence in question is from Stravinsky's Свадебка in the scene <<у
> жениха>>.
> The line reads: Пречистая Мать, ходи, ходи к нам ухать, свахе помогать
> кудри расчесать.
> The copy I have reads у хать as if it were two words, but it crosses a bar
> line so it is hard to tell if a hyphen is missing.
>
> So far I have gotten the following answers to my question about how to
> translate у хать:
> 1) it is a south Slavic variant for в хату
> 2) it is the verb ухать and means something along the lines of making noise
> while engaging in some kind of task (as in эй, ухнем)
> 3) it is a misprint for ехать
> 4) it can be translated "wooing" or "come courting."
>
> Thank you very much to those who replied on and off list. Would anyone else
> like to weigh in and dispel my confusion?
>
> --
> Laura Goering
> Professor of Russian
> Department of German and Russian
> Carleton College
> Northfield, MN 55057
> (507) 222-4125
>
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