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

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Data: 14 listopada 1998 09:55
Temat: CHAT: Aramaic whores in Hungary? (Was: Re: vulgarisms)


>Frank George Valoczy wrote:
>>
>[...]
>>
>> Hehe, then you prolly shouldn't learn magyar...we use God's name in va=
in
>> 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.
>>
>
>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).

wait the minute!!!
polish have word 'kurwa' with the same pronountiation.
polish and hungarian cultures was rather friendly and bit connected.
my father said that 'kurwa' is from latin
curvus->(fem)curva->kurwa
so whats the truth?
i don't know now nothing!!!
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lucasso