gegužinės

English translation: a public youth party in the open / an outside party for young people

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Lithuanian term or phrase:gegužinės
English translation:a public youth party in the open / an outside party for young people
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11:52 May 7, 2008
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Lithuanian term or phrase: gegužinės
Prašau pasiūlyti variantų, kaip geriau išversti į anglų kalbą žodį "gegužinės" (kaimo bendruomenės pavasariais rengiami pasilinksminimai). Dėkoju...
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Lithuania
Local time: 02:42
a public youth party in the open / an outside party for young people
Explanation:
a public youth party in the open / an outside party for young people

Aš palikčiau 'gegužinę' ir paaiškinčiau, ką tai reiškia, kaip ir žemiau pateiktuose pavyzdžiuose.

In prewar Lithuania, this custom gave birth to a very popular innovation called gegužinė, large outside parties for young people with music, dancing and singing. The first gegužinė was often held on Whitsunday

Girls were not allowed to go to the parties held outside the boundaries of their native village. In the interwar period such chances were significantly widened by gegužinės, an innovation of the end of the 19th century. Gegužinė means a public youth party in the open.
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4 +1a public youth party in the open / an outside party for young people
diana bb
4picnic, vilage party
Leonardas
3Lithuanian picnics
Gineita


  

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Lithuanian picnics


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Lithuanian picnics


    Reference: http://lithuanian-american.org/picnic_lt.php
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picnic, vilage party


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a public youth party in the open / an outside party for young people


Explanation:
a public youth party in the open / an outside party for young people

Aš palikčiau 'gegužinę' ir paaiškinčiau, ką tai reiškia, kaip ir žemiau pateiktuose pavyzdžiuose.

In prewar Lithuania, this custom gave birth to a very popular innovation called gegužinė, large outside parties for young people with music, dancing and singing. The first gegužinė was often held on Whitsunday

Girls were not allowed to go to the parties held outside the boundaries of their native village. In the interwar period such chances were significantly widened by gegužinės, an innovation of the end of the 19th century. Gegužinė means a public youth party in the open.


    Reference: http://www.lituanus.org/2005/05_4_3Saknys.htm
    Reference: http://ausis.gf.vu.lt/eka/customs/youth_life.html
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