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Thread #45455   Message #973127
Posted By: Wilfried Schaum
27-Jun-03 - 02:47 AM
Thread Name: Help: Meaning of 'Donna donna' in Yiddish
Subject: RE: Help: Meaning of 'Donna donna' in Yiddish
Mark, you're right with your doubts. Don in Russian is Don, and the Duna is a river in the North and has certainly nothing to do with this song.
By the way, let me refer to famous Voltaire:
Etymology is a science where the consonants don't count much, and the vowels even less.

Wilfried