Пречистая мат ь, х оди к нам у-хать.

[Alina Israeli]

Cannot be ехать: ходи к нам ехать makes no sense.
'ухать is also impossible. Ухать meaning 'making noise' has a stress  
on the fisrt syllable: http://poiskslov.com/word/%D1%83%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C/
In your example, it's definitely ух'ать, based on the rhyme.

In the second meaning ух'ать as in благоух'ать the stress is on the  
second syllable, but there is no logic as to why she is invited to  
sniff and comb hair.

Considering the following, and the logic of the exchange and the  
dialectal change, it is probably "в хату"

Среди косы ме лёхонько, под конец-то алу ленточку.

Пречистая Матерь, ходи к нам у хать

свахе помогать косу расплетать... (http://oleinikov.net/page.php?id=2520


Jan 20, 2011, в 11:38 AM, Laura Goering написал(а):

> 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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