tuba and truba

[itzik <itzik...>]

Can't help you with "tutsya", but i was looking at Mark Warshavsky's 
songs written at the end of the 19th century (author of "afn 
pripetshik") and he has a song called "mendl trubatsh" about a jew who 
was in the russian army and given the "truba" to play. Well, mark, if 
your Jewish name is mendl then you have a new nickname. Stutchkof's 
Yiddish thesauras does not have the word "tuba", only "truba", while 
Weinreich's dictionary only has "tuba" for tuba. So we have two words 
in Yiddish for tuba, "tuba" and "truba", and the tubist is a 
"trubatsh".- Itzik G

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