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1.something for you from a slovak philosopher George Virsik
I never heard about him.. and I am in doubt not about his Slovak origin( his bio is here ) but on dobut of future of Great Hungary
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2.the english word "hat" is "kalap" in hungarian, but "hat" is a hungarian word itself with two possible english translation "six" or "does the effect".
to make it more complicated: hat' (slo) = gát (hun) = dam (eng) 
Ok. Another one is: my(sk) = what (hu) = we (en) = we(en)=you(sk) But we have also many common words. I checked Slovak_language on wikipedia: witch (sk: bosorka, hu: boszorkány), paprika (sk: paprika, hu: paprika), mace (sk: budzogán;, hu: buzogány), news (sk: chýr, hu: hír(ek)), mine (sk: bana, hu: bánya), pick (sk: cakan, hu: csákány), skate (sk: korcula, hu: korcsolya), whip (sk: korbác, hu: korbács), hoar (sk: dere , hu: deres), sabre (sk: abla, hu: szablya), dragon (sk: arkan, hu: sárkány), "magical horse" (sk: táto hu: táltos), goon (sk: iván; , hu: zsivány), hussar (sk: husár, hu: huszár), château, mansion (sk: katiel, hu: kastély), (clothing) button (sk: gombík, hu: (ruha)gomb) On Hungarian_language it is stating: "Loans were mainly performed from the Slavic languages (for example, kira: 'king'), German (e. g. like hɛrtsɛg 'prince'), and Latin (e. g., tɛmplom 'church'). " I read somewhere that there are 2000 words (stated by Hungarien academy of science) in HUngarien loaned from SLovak. I am not able to wind the link now. Can you help with this?
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Visegrád is familiar for both of us you know...
You probably know what means grád but do you understand also "vise" (I do not know Hungarian)...
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or just see Szirák (Sirák), Békéscsaba (Bekeska Caba), and so on... .... please let me know if you has a slovak name for mytown! it would be fine to the topic.
I was in Békéscsaba this sommer passing your town (you will find Slovak name on wikipedia.org of Szeged it is Segedín, we have even special meal: Segedín gulá ). I visited relateves of my father who moved from there in 1948. I was quite said - among SLovaks there no SLovak is spoken. All the Slovak people I met, younger then 70, are not able to understand any SLovak.
Best regards - maybe we will meet somewhere somehow in a real live.
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