Platonov - Semyon - заквокнешь

[Valery Vyugin]

А ты что заквок? — Заквок — загрустил, скис: от «кваситься», «кваснуть» —
киснуть (см.: Даль 1979 — 1980, т. 2, с. 103).

Из Яблокова На берегу неба. У него это слово объясняется.

В.

От:  Robert Chandler <kcf19 at dial.pipex.com>
Обратный адрес:  "SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures
list" <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU>
Дата:  2013 марта 16 суббота 23:03
Кому:  <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU>
Тема:  [SEELANGS] Platonov - Semyon - заквокнешь

Dear all,

A woman is giving birth.  She has said that she does not want to give birth
ever again.  The old village midwife replies "И-их, дочка, рожать не будешь,
замутнеешь, погниешь, заквокнешь вся -- не вспомнишь,  что  жизнь  прожила,
злобой  подернешься...

This verb is often translated as "cackle"  Dal' also gives “Стонать, охать;
ворчать…” .  This seems the most relevant.  But the sentence as a whole
remains horribly difficult to translate.  At present we have:"Oh, my
daughter, if you stop having kids you’ll cloud over, you’ll start to rot,
you’ll do nothing but moan and groan. You’ll forget you’ve lived a life, and
you’ll crust over with spite.  Better to suffer and know that you’re living
a life!”
Any thoughts, anyone?

All the best, Robert


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