Re: CHAT: Aramaic whores in Hungary? (Was: Re: vulgarisms)

On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, vardi wrote:

> Frank George Valoczy wrote:
> >
> [...]
> >
> > Hehe, then you prolly shouldn't learn magyar...we use God's name in vai=
n
> > all the time, e.g. "basszon valagba a kurva Isten" (May the whore God
> > fuck your ass).  Tha't only the tip of the iceberg.
> >
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> Just out of interest, which of the words in Hungarian means "whore"? The
> reason I ask is because if it is kurva, do you know the origin of the
> word? I don't know Hungarian, but it doesn't look like your typical
> Hungarian word. Kurva is an Aramaic word for whore used in Hebrew.... It
> would be kind of fun if that was where it came from (via the
> once-enormous Jewish community in Hungary).  I've encountered similar
> Hebrew/Yiddish words still used in modern German slang, even though
> no-one I heard use them knew their origin (e.g. ganeff=3Dthief,
> meshiga=3Dcrazy).
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> A stab in the dark, of course, but any comments gratefully received!
Kurva came into Hugarian from Slavic (it's a very commonly heard in=20
Polish, Serbian, Czech, etc.).  I knew it's not Hungarian, but I did not=20
know what you just told me. One word in Hungarian I doknow came from=20
Hebrew or Yiddish is mes=FCge (mESYgE), which I assume came from meshuggene=
r.

Shalom, Feri


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