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birdwatcher) wrote2009-11-26 08:14 am
birdwatcher) wrote2009-11-26 08:14 am
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That night at Stresa she insisted they rehearse (he in his sleeping shorts, she in a Chudo-Yudo pajama) an acrobatic escape.... --V. Nabokov, "Transparent things".
Погуглил - нет такой пижамы, все ссылки обратно на Набокова.
- "Chudo-Yudo: from Russian folklore, also used by Pushkin: 'Chudo' means marvel. Together with 'yudo', a complementary nonsense vocable, it connotes, in Russian legend, something big and impressive. Father may have intended a side pun on Judo-style pyjamas... (Dmitri Nabokov).
Не вполне убежден, что "юдо" - это именно nonsense vocable.
Погуглил - нет такой пижамы, все ссылки обратно на Набокова.
- "Chudo-Yudo: from Russian folklore, also used by Pushkin: 'Chudo' means marvel. Together with 'yudo', a complementary nonsense vocable, it connotes, in Russian legend, something big and impressive. Father may have intended a side pun on Judo-style pyjamas... (Dmitri Nabokov).
Не вполне убежден, что "юдо" - это именно nonsense vocable.
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