Re: klezmer-loshn translation

[Marvin <physchem...>]

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Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: klezmer-loshn translation


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> Marvin wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: borzykowski
> > To: World music from a Jewish slant
> > Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 3:04 PM
> > Subject: klezmer-loshn translation
> >
> > Dear Chewre,
> >
> > Can someone also translate in english the yiddish (klezmer) words
> > Dreydlekh
> > - - - - -
> > Plural of "dreydl", a top of a special form used at Chanukah
> >  - - -- -
> > and
> > Kwetsh?
> > - - - - -
> > Complain
>
>  "Tsu kvetchn"  means "to squeeze" (and  a "kvetch" (n) = a "squeeze".)
>
> ( In some quarters, the Yiddish slang for "to complain" = "tsu kvetchn"
> and a "complainer" = a "kvetch".)
>
> Proper Yiddish for "to complain" is "tsu baklogn zikh".
>
I stand corrected.  But which meaning is right in the klezmer sense of an
intonation in playing a violin?  That was apparently the original question.

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