Re: CHAT: Aramaic whores in Hungary? (Was: Re: vulgarisms)
| From: | Eric Christopherson <eric@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 15, 1998, 5:58 |
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> Kurva came into Hugarian from Slavic (it's a very commonly heard in
> Polish, Serbian, Czech, etc.). I knew it's not Hungarian, but I did no=
t
> know what you just told me. One word in Hungarian I doknow came from
> Hebrew or Yiddish is mes=FCge (mESYgE), which I assume came from meshug=
gener.
>=20
> Shalom, Feri
Shalom, Feri! You are close, but the origin is probably _meshugge_,
which is Hebrew and Yiddish for "crazy". In Yiddish, a crazy person
(male) is a _meshuggener_ and a crazy person (female) is a
_meshuggene(h)_.