Пречистая мать, х од и к нам у-хать.

[Andrey Shcherbenok]

Dear Laura Goering,

It seems that у хать is not a misprint
http://libelli.narod.ru/music/stravinsky/svadebka.html
and it does mean "в хату". One additional argument if favor of the
noun rather than the verb is that the meter demands a stress on the
last syllable, which is the case with a noun, while a verb would  most
probably have been stressed as У-хать. Semantically, too, Prechistaia
mat' is invited to "косы расплетать" rather than to produce any kind
of noise. Ехать does not make any sense at all.

Best wishes,
Andrey

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Dr. Andrey Shcherbenok

British Academy Newton International Fellow
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
University of Sheffield, Jessop West,
1 Upper Hanover St, Sheffield S3 7RA
United Kingdom


On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:38 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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