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

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Sunday, November 15, 1998, 0:36
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=
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> > 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. > > >=20 > 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). >=20 > 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 -------ferke Ferenc Gy. Valoczy Es to pilni'gi noliedzu! Personal page: http://www.extra.hu/svejk/index.html Tu-134 page: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/7482/ railways page: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3976/ conlang page: http://members.tripod.com/~tuonela/ Uralica: http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/3259/ Zaradi politicnega delovanja je oblast v letu 1982 razpustila: Svobodo (Laibach)