Please can anyone help with puzzling Slavic words
Wayles Browne
ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU
Mon Mar 31 23:07:13 UTC 2003
>Natalia Pylypiuk wrote:
>
>> Oj, ne xody, Hrycju... (according to International Academic standard
>> of transliteration)
>> Oi, ne khody, Hrytsiu (according to Library of Congress standard of
>> transliteration)
>>
> > is NOT a Russian folksong, but a Ukrainian one.
>>
Indeed so.
"The song about Hryc' is a typical folk ballad about a young girl who
found out that her
boyfriend was two-timing her and so she 'did him in'." From Assya
Humesky, Modern
Ukrainian, Edmonton-Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
1980, p. 274-275.
(This book has words, translation, and music; if the Stapletons can't
find it in the U.K.,
I'd be willing to send a Xerox copy.)
--
Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
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