Re: TSUR/CHUR was:[tied] *ekwos and friends

From: Max Dashu
Message: 10357
Date: 2001-10-17

>> I do not recall any aggressive usage of chur in Russian.

>*****GK: Looks like its those darn Ukrainians again

In the opera Boris Godunov, where he is tormented by the spirit of the
murdered tsarevich, he cries out, "Chur, chur, ditya!!" Sounds not so much
aggressive as defensive...

Max

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