Table Of ContentSTUDIA URALICA
Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fiir Finno-Ugristik
der Un iversitat Wien
Herausgegeben von Karoly Redei
Band 8
1996
Harrassowitz Verlag · Wiesbaden
Karoly Redei
Z yrian Texts
1996 fbN}
Harrassowitz Verlag · Wiesbaden
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Forschung, Wien.
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Z rian texts I Karoly Redei. -Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 1996
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(Studia Uralica; Bd. 8)
ISBN 3-447-03684-2
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Table of Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VII
Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IX
I. The Central Sysola Dialect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Narratives and tales, a child's song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1. [Episodes from the Narrator's Life] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. [Fishing] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3. [Episodes from the Narrator's Life] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4. [Work in the Sovkhoz] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5. [Hauling Flax] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6. [Hauling] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7. [Episodes from the Narrator's Life] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
8. [Making Felt Boots] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
9. [Weddings] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
10. [Episodes from the Narrator's Life] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
11. [Work and Folk Customs] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
12. [Stories from the Narrator's Life] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
13. [When Putting a Child to Sleep] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
14. [Hunting and Fishing] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
15. [Growing Flax] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
16. [Wedding Customs] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
17. [Work and Holidays] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
18. [Fragmentary Biography] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
19. [An Adventure with Wolves] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
20. [An Encounter with a Bear] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
21. [The Mating of Wood Grouse] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
22. [Games] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
23. [Holidays] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
24. [Voluntary Work Brigades] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
25. [Work in the Kolkhoz and the Sovkhoz] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
26. [Farm Work] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
27. [Weddings] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
28. [The Fisherman] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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29. [Games] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
30. [Episodes from the Narrator's Life] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
31.-37. [Songs] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
38. [Verses] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
39. [Fragments] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
II. The Central Vycegda Dialect (Surroundings of Syktyvkar) . . . . . . . 65
Narratives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
40. [Holiday Customs] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
41. [Episodes from the Narrator's Life] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
42. [The Drunken Priest] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
43. [Holidays] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
44. [A Baptism] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
45. [The Ghost in the Cellar] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
46. [Brewing Beer] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
47. [Funerals] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
48. [Bathing] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
49. [Games] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
50. [Knocking on the Table] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
51. [Lightning] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
52. [Wedding Customs] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
53. [The Origin of the Name Cowhead] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
54. [Agricultural Work] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
55. [The Drunken Father] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
56. [Episodes from the Narrator's Life] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
57. [Episodes from the Narrator's Life] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
58. [Episodes from the Narrator's Life] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
III. Texts in Spoken Standard Zyrian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
59. [Episodes from the Narrator's Life] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
60. [Wimer Experiences] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
61. [Heating the Steam Bath and Bathing] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Notes on the Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Preface
I collected the Zyrian texts of the present publication at three different times. In
1985 from July 2nd to August 12th I was on a study trip to the Soviet Union.
During this time I spent four weeks in the Komi Republic. In July 1985 I con
ducted field work along the Central Sysola in the villages of Vizinga and Kura
tovo, the results of which are the texts printed here which I recorded on a tape
recorder (Uher 4200 Report Stereo). On the occasion of a two-week study trip
to the Soviet Union in 1989 Quly 3rd to August 12th) I spent two weeks on a
field trip to Zyrian territory. At this time I recorded texts from the Central Vy
cegda dialect (area around Syktyvkar) in the village of Soska on the banks of the
Sysola using an Olympus Pearlcorder 5906 dictaphone. The material I collected
consists almost exclusively of narratives and not of folklore genres. All of my in
formants both those from Central Sysola and that from Central Vycegda were
good narrators, but were not able to relate folklore texts (tales, songs, etc.). It
would appear that folklore tradition in the Sysola area is slowly being forgotten.
Perhaps the main reason for this is industrialization and the concomitant ex
hausting daily work which extinguishes people's interest for poetry. These cir
cumstances were pointed out as being the reason by one or two of my inform
ants, when I asked them about folk-tales and folk-songs. I recorded the texts in
the standard language on April 3rd, 1991 with the above-mentioned dictaphone
from N. D. Manova who visited Vienna for several days during her stay in Buda
pest.
On my field-trip to the villages of Vizinga and Kuratovo I was accompanied
by the Syktyvkar linguist V. A. Ljasev, who himself comes from Vizinga. For the
field-trip to the village of Soska I had assistance from my colleagues G. G. Ba
raksanov and J. G. Rocev. I would like to thank them as well as my informants
here for their kind help and for all the trouble they took. My thanks go addition
ally to Timothy Riese for translating the Hungarian text into English and com
paring it with the Zyrian original.
In conclusion, I would like to express my gratitude to the Austrian Academy
of Sciences which in the framework of an Austro-Soviet scholarly agreement
made it possible for me to travel to the Soviet Union twice on study trips.
The informant]. V. Beljaev, the Zyrian linguist V.A. Ljasev and K. Redei
Abbreviations
For the abbreviations of Zyrian dialects not given here cf. the Zyrian dictionaries
listed below.
Dal' ,IJ;aJih, BJiaAHMIIp: ToJIKOBhIH cnoBapb )KJIBoro BeJIII
KopyccKoro H3hIKa I -IV. C.-IleTep6ypr-MocKBa,
1880-1882.
Fokos-Fuchs Fokos-Fuchs, D.R.: Syrjanisches Worterbuch I-II. Buda
pest, 1959.
Kolegova KoneroBa, H. A. - EapaKCaHOB, r. r.: CpeAHeCblCOJih
Baraksanov, SSDK CKHH AHaJieKT KOMH H3hIKa. MocKBa, 1980.
KRSL JlhITKIIH, B. 11. (ed.): KoMH-pyccKJIH CJIOBapb. MocKBa,
1961.
Pavl. IlaBJIOBCKIIH, 11. 51.: PyccKo-HeMeIJKHH CJIOBapb. Riga -
Leipzig, 1911.
PCK IlpaBocJrnBHhIH u;epKOBHhIH KaJieHAaph 1992.
PN Permyak Northern
PS Permyak Southern
Redei, ChrestSyrj. Redei, Karoly: Chrestomathia Syrjaenica. Budapest, 1978.
RKSl. TIIMyIIIeB, ,a:. A. (e d.): PyccKO-KOMII cnoBapb. ChIK
ThIBKap,1966.
SC Sysola Central
SR Syktyvkar Region ( = VC)
SrSlK CopBaqeBa, B.A .: CpaBHJITeJihHhIM CJIOBaph KOMII-
3hipHHCKHX AHaJieKTOB. CbIKThIBKap, 1961.
TESz. Benko, Lor.ind-Kiss, Lajos-Papp, Laszlo, (ed.): A ma
gyar nyelv torteneti-etimol6giai sz6tara. Budapest, 1967 -
1984.
Turkin 1986 TypKIIH, A.11.: TorroHHMJiqecKJIH CJIOBapb KoMII ACCP.
ChIKThIBKap, 1986.
Vasmer, R];'.tWB. Vasmer, Max: Russisches etymo�ogisches Worterbuch I
III. Heidelberg, 1953-1958.
vc
Vycegda Central(= SR)
VK BottBhIB KOA3YB- ChIKThIBKap, 1992/I.
X Abbreviations
VL Vycegda Lower
Vm. Vym
WUo. Wichmann, Yrjo-Uotila, T. E.: Syrjanischer Wortschatz
nebst Hauptzi.igen der Formenlehre. Aufgezeichnet von
Yrjo Wichmann, bearb. u. hg. von T.E. Uotila. Helsinki,
1942.
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M. I. Baraksanova and her son, the linguist G. G. Baraksanov
M.I. Baraksanova 's house
