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Thread #23577 Message #2724451
Posted By: GUEST,Dave MacKenzie
15-Sep-09 - 07:11 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Dona Dona
Subject: RE: Origins: Dona Dona
I don't know where I originally heard it, but I've always thought that Dona was a Yiddish variant of "Adonai" (God). Some of the Dona's in the Yiddish version are pronounced as donai.