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hi!
thanks for great links and common words!
EDIT: origin of our common words from Hungarian Ethimological Dictionary (TINTA 2006.):

witch (sk: bosorka, hu: boszorkány) - from osman became hungarian then slovak,
paprika (sk: paprika, hu: paprika) - croatian-serbian,
mace (sk: budzogán;, hu: buzogány) - from different turkish languages became hungarian and i.e. slovak,
news (sk: chýr, hu: hír(ek)) - unknown origin from the XIII. cen.,
mine (sk: bana, hu: bánya) - western-slavic origin likely slovak,
pick (sk: cakan, hu: csákány) - contentious turkish, slavic (or both) origin,
skate (sk: korcula, hu: korcsolya) - italian,
whip (sk: korbác, hu: korbács) - osman-turkish,
hoar (sk: dereš , hu: deres) - hungarian,
sabre (sk: šabla, hu: szablya) - wanderer-word likely spreaded by the conquering hungarians from 896,
dragon (sk: šarkan, hu: sárkány) - from some turkish word before 896 became hungarian then slovak,
"magical horse" (sk: tátoš hu: táltos) - ancient ugric-age word with hungarian constitution,
goon (sk: živán; , hu: zsivány) - osman-turkish,
hussar (sk: husár, hu: huszár) - croatian-serbian origin than became wanderer-word from hungarian,
château, mansion (sk: kaštiel, hu: kastély) - (northern) italian,
(clothing) button (sk: gombík, hu: (ruha)gomb) - dubious origin, from 1138 written-proved in hungarian

the name of town Visegrád is not in hungarian
the meaning of the slavic Visegrád is high fortress (magas vár in hungarian).
the town was named visegrád firstly in a latin language document in 1009.
Visegrád homepage

sad to hear slovak people cannot speak slovak in Békéscsaba (means peaceful csaba where Csaba is a hungarian male name.)
(i do not know origin, may check later)
i have some tót acquaintances who speaks slovak high-level besides hungarian as motherlanguage.

Hungarians swept abroad are managed to keep language.
very interesting thing i have confronted with not long ago.
there is a hungarian runic script on an icon of the Énlaka unitarian church from 1668. and
as knowing the székely runes i can read "Egy az Isten" (one is the god) in the upper row even now in 2008.

Énlaka wikipage

you can see the first rune (upright), the double cross (means one, spell "egy" in hungarian)
that we can see also in our blazons, in hungarian and slovak as well.

credit

regards.

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Edited by syzygy (01/28/08 05:45 AM)

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