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  • #592576
    WIY
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    My grandparents use loads of Hungarian and I wish I had a clue what some of those words and phrases meant. Put down some of the more common words and phrases and what they mean. Thanks

    #701180
    volvie
    Member

    Uncle Dezei is Dezei Batchi. (Dezei is his name.)

    #701181
    Ofcourse
    Member

    Ishtenem- (common utterance, means my G-d, I think).

    #701182
    smartcookie
    Member

    Igen- yes

    Pulatchinta- blintzes!!

    Nemtudun(I think)- I don’t understand.

    Puputch- slippers

    Bulunt- I think this means crazy.

    What a language! Those are the few words I picked up over the years. There’s more…I’m thinking…

    #701183
    Feif Un
    Participant

    volvie: Yes, Batchi is uncle, and neini is aunt. These words are also said after the name, not before.

    #701184

    Smartcookie Nice try but your tranliteration leaves much to be desired. Nem tudom – I dont know boland = crazy

    Ofcouse yes I..tenem is H’ if you thought it referred to Hashem You should not have speeled

    WIY I have a pretty large Hungarian (spoken) vocabulary, but I just could not figure out 1) which words you are exposed to 2) How to translitrate. Would yiddish with hebrew characters help?

    #701185

    OOPS I meant to write spelled not speeled ransliterate not translitrate

    I guess I should not offer to help. With my typing unskills you would not gain much. Spell check would not help much with transliteration

    #701186
    volvie
    Member

    feifun: I indicated that they are said after the name.

    #701187

    Seems I really “Shouldnt be here”. With my chronic typos (mistyping a correction) I’m not contributing much except for some “head scrathing” at trying to decipher what I meent.

    #701188
    WIY
    Member

    Shouldnt be here

    I am exposed to real Hungarian from Hungary but is current Czech republic.

    #701189

    WellInformedYid your response just illustrated my uselessnes

    I am misunderstood. farewell guys.

    #701190
    volvie
    Member

    WIY: Czech was originally part of Austria, not Hungary (although both were part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire). Slovakia was part of Hungary. This is all pre-Trianon Treaty (i.e. pre-WWI.) Between the wars, both Czech and Slovakia were part of Czechoslovakia. I suspect the area you are referring to is in the Subcarpathian Rus, which was part of Czechoslovakia between the World Wars and became part of the Soviet Union after WWII, and is now part of Ukraine. It was a heavily Orthodox Jewish/Chasidic region of Europe. And it too was part of Hungary pre-WWI.

    What city are they from?

    #701191
    Aishes Chayil
    Participant

    Kitch Lanyo- little girl

    ninche-nothing

    holnop-tommorrow

    itvon-I am here

    Medyek- I am going

    Hosoc-house

    aidesh-sweet

    ember-person

    finom-very good

    krumpli-potatoes

    baryosh- becheined

    sember-eyes

    chargot-yellow

    sape-beautiful

    irtem-I understand

    mi von-what is it

    #701192
    Aishes Chayil
    Participant

    dyerek-child

    ishkolabro-school

    felesh-wife

    feher-husband

    fiu-boy

    seretlek-I love you

    Kutyo-dog

    mit chinaltz-what are you doing?

    MINDAIN YO-ALL THE BEST

    hod vod-how are you

    Well, I am not sure of all the spelling ….

    #701193

    hudtutzigleni-how are you doing

    I don’t know how to spell it.

    #701194
    Poster
    Member

    Miyushag – how are you

    Chinush – skinny

    Kisinem – thank you

    Kapusta – stuffed cabbage

    #701195
    Aishes Chayil
    Participant

    Myushag is ‘whats news’

    #701196

    Farewell suspended could not resist I was so right when I wrote but I just could not figure out ….2) How to translitrate.

    Kitch Lanyo- little girl kish not kitch no o at end of lanyo

    ninche-nothing nothing – shemi ninche there isnt any

    holnop-tommorrow no l in honop

    itvon-I am here itvon – here it is

    It vagyak= I’m here

    Medyek- I am going

    Hosoc-house house hasz

    aidesh-sweet edesh

    ember-person Human (male)

    finom-very good fine

    krumpli-potatoes

    baryosh- becheined no “R’

    sember-eyes no ber

    chargot-yellow sharga

    sape-beautiful

    irtem-I understand ertem I understand Irtem I wrote

    mi von-what is it what is it = mi ez, mi von coloq whats happenning

    dyerek-child

    ishkolabro-school school ishakala

    felesh-wife felesheg

    feher-husband feher white husband fer

    fiu-boy

    seretlek-I love you

    Kutyo-dog

    mit chinaltz-what are you doing? mit chinals

    MINDAIN YO-ALL THE BEST

    hod vod-how are you

    #701197
    apushatayid
    Participant

    min kul uku min kul marin bishin (no idea what it means)

    #701198

    hudtutzigleni-how are you doing

    I don’t know how to spell it. It is 3 words Hudy Tecig leni

    Miyushag – how are you 2 words mi ushag

    Friends give up its futile Hugarian is HARD to transliterate and even if you knew how to write it in Hunagrian nobody would be able to read it.

    #701199
    WIY
    Member

    what does Asta koocha faya necki mean?

    #701200

    (no idea what it means) Really?? See ????? ?????? ????? ??????Artscroll and Metsuda etc sidurim for Yekum Purkan

    ??????????????? ???????????????? ??? ???? ????? ????? ???? ???????? ?????????. ????? ???? ??????????? ????? ???????????? ???? ????? ????????. ??????? ?????:

    #701201

    WIY An expresssion of anger/frustration Wishing someone a dog’s

    wood or tree.

    #701202
    smartcookie
    Member

    WIY- lol you just took that off a different sight!

    You say it when you wanna tell the person to go get a life.

    #701203
    smile66
    Member

    yay! i like this thread! i’m like half fluent… k so first of all i just wanna make a few slight corrections if i may

    nothing – shemmi, nichen mean there isn’t

    eye – sem, eyes- semek

    school – ishkola

    wife – feleshaig

    tomorrow – holnup

    dog – kootyuh

    chinosh – pretty, nice looking, softer word. doesn’t mean stunning or gorgeous, means like pleasantly pretty. about a girl only pretty much.

    i wrote – irtam

    i am here – it vagyok (gy sound is sort of like a soft d & y mixed)

    school – ishkola

    how are you – hogy vugy

    I don’t know – nem tudom

    Crazy – bolond

    smartcookie – palachinta!! yummmm

    btw Ishtenem is sort of the all around “oh my gosh” phrase. there’s more, having to do with another religion lol, but this is a very main one.

    hmmm k now for my own

    konyha – kitchen

    anyu – mother

    apu – father

    pirosh – red

    naranch sharga – orange

    sharga – yellow

    zold – green

    kaik – blue

    liluh – purple

    paprika – pepper, pirosh paprika – paprika powder

    roohuh – dress

    ing – shirt

    zeneh – music

    nup – day, sun

    anything else?

    apushtayid – i don’t recognize it at all. could it possibly be yiddish?

    #701204
    smile66
    Member

    well informed yid – asta kutya faya is sort of like darn. neki means to it. lol

    #701205

    Another possibility dog’s pain. I never had the courage or Chutzpa to ask my parents for def

    #701206

    what does: “Klaatu barada nikto” mean?

    #701207

    what does: “Klaatu barada nikto” mean? does not sound like anything vaguely familiar. is it another try at an aramaic tefila?

    #701208
    smile66
    Member
    #701209
    smile66
    Member
    #701210
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    ofli- cucumbers

    lopin- couch

    gitir- come

    sdvel(?)- store

    ghart- hear

    binults- garbage

    wellen- sugar

    fotrik- fork

    wottild- grandfather

    sottild- grandmother

    vottild- great uncle

    grottild- great aunt

    snottild- mother in law

    frottild- father in law

    #701211

    smile66

    (i don’t know how to explain that sound) Only “that” sound?

    Stop guessing mod 80 is pullimg our legs

    #701212
    smile66
    Member

    shouldnt be here – lol

    well that’s one of the only sounds that have no REMOTELY similar sound in english

    #701213

    popa_bar_abba Are you using ???????? of some sort In 63 years of exposure to the Magyar language I’ve never heard these words.

    Or is it your way saying “Who really cares?” It is all a bunch of

    useless nonesense anyway. You most probabaly are right

    Smile66 Did you ever hear anybody use that term articuately enough to analyze?

    #701214
    dunno
    Member

    My grandparents are Hungarian so I understand most of these words. Great language when you don’t want people to understand…although you’ve gotta be careful in BP 🙂

    #701215

    popa_bar_abba Gottcha!!

    I tried frottild on autodetect @ http://www.microsofttranslator.com/ and got nothing back

    #701216
    smile66
    Member

    dunno – i agree GREAT language when you don’t want people to understand, though yes you do have to be careful. i have a story about that:

    once my aunt (who is completely fluent) went into this cute little vintage store to browse around for five minutes, and while she was browsing, she heard the two men who worked there start saying all these rude things about her in hungarian, like “why does she have to be taking so long?” and “what is she so interested in here already?”

    so she stayed in there for almost a half and hour and asked them questions about every little thing.

    #701217
    smile66
    Member

    shouldnt be here – which term?

    #701218

    A similar story:

    #701219

    shouldnt be here – which term? Dog’s ???

    #701220
    smile66
    Member

    i analyzed it now 🙂

    but yes i have heard it before now

    #701221
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    Oh wait, Hungarian ? I thought this thread was Nigerian .

    #701222

    Niagarian??

    I just tried Njagra Indian on Google aint no such language or nation

    #701223
    #701224
    volvie
    Member

    Very interesting information

    Anyone who shtams from Hungary (i.e. their parents or grandparents came from Hungary) is technically considered a Hungarian citizen under Hungarian law. What this means is that they can go to any Hungarian consulate in the world (New York, LA, Tel Aviv), either in person or via mail, and apply for a Hungarian passport. Since Hungary is part of the EU, this means they can then travel (or even move) at any time for any length to Hungary or any of the 26 other EU countries — England, France, Poland, etc. — without obtaining any VISA or any prior notice.

    #701225

    Volvie why post incomplete info ??? You left out >>>speak<<<

    The Hungarian new law has allowed millions of ethnic Hungarians in neighboring countries to apply for Hungarian citizenship. The only conditions are that they have to prove they are of Hungarian origin and >>>>speak<<< the language.

    http://www.voanews.com/english/news/europe/Hungary-Adopts-Citizenship-Law-95001319.html

    #701226

    Popa bar abba

    as wellinformed said @ Graduation Trip Popa You’re on a roll with Nigeria.

    I thought you were getting Shailos from Nigeria but I checked

    http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/popa-taking-questions-on-yoreh-deah-choshen-mishpat/page/2

    and did not see any

    #701227
    volvie
    Member

    SBH: Perhaps you takke shouldn’t be here? 😉

    You misunderstood. That new law, effective Jan. 1, ’11, affects naturalizing as a Hungarian citizen. IOW, if someone isn’t already a citizen, if they shtam from any of the “Greater Hungary” (i.e. Pre-Trianon/WWI, when Hungary was reduced to one third of its original size) areas, where the people lost their Hungarian citizenship under the Trianon Treaty and acquired citizenship of the newly formed states (i.e. Czechoslovakia, Poland, the added areas of Romania, and parts of Yugoslavia), those people can now acquire Hungarian citizenship through the new law you referenced, without having to travel or move to Hungary. Some of the areas affected include Satmar, Munkatch, Ungvar, etc.

    People who shtam from the parts of Hungary that are still part of modern day Hungary (i.e. Budapest, Debrecin, etc.) never lost their citizenship. And since Hungarian law grants citizenship to anyone’s who’s father (and by extension father’s father, etc.) was a citizen [and since 1951 to anyone who’s mother was a citizen], therefore they are and always have been citizens. And they can simply claim a passport under their status as a citizen. And they don’t need to know a word of Hungarian.

    #701228
    popa_bar_abba
    Participant

    shouldn’t be here:

    When you go to Nigeria, you need to know halacha yourself. I was backpacking once and I decided I could make hot water for my hot cocoa in a fleishig non- ben yomo pot. see Gra YD 95:10.

    When you go to heaven, Hashem will say, “Did you see my Nigeria?” (Don’t answer, “All my money did”)

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