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Polish Nursery Rhymes


gumishu  15 | 6193
26 Jan 2023   #241
Hop hop hop
Yejeh chlop (like a klop but more .. from the throat?)
Nakonycha hop hop hop
Azo nyejeh (something, something x2) slowly getting faster

this part goes like this:

Hop hop hop
Jedzie chłop
Na koniku hop hop hop
Aż dojedzie.. (can't remember what was next)

and I have no idea what Hotsaway represents

translation
Hop hop hop
A man rides
a horsey hop hop hop
Until he reaches... (that's as far as I got :P)
Kushy82
17 Feb 2023   #242
Hop hop hop
Jedzie chłop
Na koniku hop hop hop
Aż dojedzie..

Yes!! Oh my gosh! That's it! Eee! I'm going to keep hunting for the rest - THANK YOU!! 😊

Is there a song about a goldfish?

Mama złotą rybkę, rybke rybke ryba?

Does that sound familiar or part of a song?
girlscientist
15 Jul 2023   #243
Trying to understand what a few words of this rhyme or song my father would sing;
"Na zielony ( Green)" then the next word is the one I cannot recall, but it sounded like "wensa" or "wansa".
He was born in 1923 his parents were from Poland. I think he knew this song or poem when he was a child.
bookworm
25 Oct 2024   #244
I'm searching for a child's fingerplay rhyme which names various grains, then ends with "and the rooster says, 'Cookedy Coo.'" My husband tries to repeat what he recalls his mother and grandmother saying, but I'm pretty certain his pronunciation/recall is off. My daughter and her children would like to learn it, but we'd like to get it correctly. My husband says something like "Bobek, groshek, vitchka, sneetchka, Okem starkey Cookedy Coo." Is this familiar to anyone. Would love to learn it correctly!
pawian  221 | 26094
25 Oct 2024   #245
Bobek, groshek, vitchka, sneetchka

Impossible to track down. Must be a local rhyme which didn`t make it into popular culture. There were hundreds if not thousands of such rhymes coz each family could invent their own ones.
gumishu  15 | 6193
26 Oct 2024   #246
Bobek, groshek, vitchka, sneetchka, Okem starkey Cookedy Coo.

I don't know the rhyme either - but bobek is faba beans (diminutive of bób), groszek is pea(s) (diminutive of groch), wyczka (diminutive of wyka) is vetch - no idea what sneetchka is - I have no idea what "Okem starkey" is supposed to mean either (Okem may be o kim (about whom) or okiem) - the Cookedy coo part is spelled kukuryku in Polish
gumishu  15 | 6193
26 Oct 2024   #247
"Na zielony ( Green)" then the next word is the one I cannot recall, but it sounded like "wensa" or "wansa

that's "na zielonej łące" most probably (Polish ł is the same sound as English w)
mafketis  38 | 11107
26 Oct 2024   #248
but bobek is faba beans

aka fava bean or broad bean...
gumishu  15 | 6193
26 Oct 2024   #249
aka fava bean or broad bean...

yes, indeed - I don't think it has ever been actually called faba bean in English - think it's always fava bean - my mistake
mafketis  38 | 11107
26 Oct 2024   #250
think it's always fava bean

I think most Americans only know 'fava bean' from Hannibal Lecter... I'd always called them broad beans. I'd never had them fresh though before Poland... In the US I had only had snacks, some from Peru where they just throw it into a fire (very hard, tooth hazard) and Chinese (where they deep fry the total crap out of them).
gumishu  15 | 6193
26 Oct 2024   #251
I understand it is completely off-topic, now - but I honestly thought fava beans is some American borrowing from some Latin American speech - and from what you say I gather it's a British word
mafketis  38 | 11107
26 Oct 2024   #252
and from what you say I gather it's a British word

well fava comes from Italian.... I think fava was used some in America (esp Italian Americans) but not a common name, I had no idea what fava beans were when Silence of the Lambs came out and though I did know broad beans I didn't connect the two
Feniks  1 | 645
26 Oct 2024   #253
I had no idea what fava beans were..

The same. Over here they're called broad beans.


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