Language Variations - City Names in English, French, German and Hungarian 

Hát igen... Ha már magyarázunk, akkor tudjunk is hozzá. Agócs András legalább tud hozzá...

Also good to mention, that Cape Town got its name from the nearby cape... the Cape of Good Hope, which is Jóreménység FOKA in Hungarian.

@@AttilaOsztrogonacz Pontosan. Bármelyik irányból, addig délre haladunk a hideg Antarktisz felé, az egyre erősebb áramlatok felé, onnan pedig északra fordulunk, ahonnan már csak jobb lehet.

Cape is fok, mint hegyfok, nem pedig Celsius fok. Town is (kis)város. Fokváros szó szerinti fordítása a Cape Townnak, illetve az eredeti holland Kapstaadnak.

Exactly. Thank you very much. Btw, this meaning can be seen in other expressions, such as "a kés foka", "foki gazdálkodás" etc.

I didn't know about the old Hungarian translations of Stockholm and Copenhagen. That is a very cool and interesting fact.

Those two names for Copenhagen and Stockholm were just funny/crazy ideas from a single person that were never in real use. Many towns, especially in Central Europe that have had strong ties with Hungarian culture since the medieval ages have Hungarian names, as well as many capitals all over the word. (This is similar though in other languages in the region, like Czech.) Moreover, many settlements in the former Austro-Hungarian Morarchy and almost all in former great-Hungary have Hungarian names. Also many Hungarian towns have a German name, either because of the Monarchy or because of German-speaking inhabitants. Some of these are not in use anymore (Ofen for Buda), some still are (Raab for Győr).

Á igen, a "Fiahordó Górugrány"

@@barnykirashi A kedvencem akkor is a "Gőzpöfögészeti tovalöködönc", de a "Nyaktekerészeti mellfekvenc" egy erős második

Romania did so in Erdély.

A tengerészek foknak neveznek minden, tájékozódásra alkalmas kiemelkedést. És most beszélgessünk a fokhagymáról... Csak hogy a tető fokára hágjon a hangulat. :D

@@viktorfarkas3206 Úgy tudom, hogy Fokföldön a viszonylag magas hőfoknak köszenhetően magas fokban termesztik a fokhagymát viszont fokazatosan vigyázni kell a fokokra mert ha túl fokozzuk akkor hajlamos a felfokozódásra és az meg már fokozottan ártalmas is lehet.

and how do you pronounce Szczecin or Bydgoszcz?

@@Inferiis Im not polish but my best guess would be shechecin and bidgoshch

Interesting, thanks for sharing!

@@TheForkingTomatoes "fok" is found also in hegyfok which means a muntains summit.

@@TheForkingTomatoes In this case, the fok means protrusion in the Hungarian language.

'Város' in Hungarian, means a place, a settlement which has a castle, a fort: vár. Vár - os. A seal, 'fóka' means 'fok' in Turkish.

You also answered their question on where Bécs came from. It's from the Ottomans

@@Inferiis The opposite. Bec came from the Hungarian name Becs

@@HakapesziM There are actually a lot of seals in Cape Town, so Seal Town (Fókaváros) should also be an appropriate name.

@@Inferiis no I think the Ottomans took it from the Hungarians

We don't know what language the Avars spoke yet. No evidence, just placenames and some personal names. But if you do it this way, you would think we have a lot of German, Romance and English-speaking people in Hungary today as we have Ervin, Lujza, Krisztián, Izabella, Lénárd, Dzsenifer or Kitti etc,... But they are neither French nor German nor American. Personal names are like fashion, they come and go, so we cannot state somebody's origin based on it. Toponymic phrases are even more complicated with different layers of populations and migrating peoples inheriting old place names when they move somewhere, OR they bring their old names to new places. (Also during the colonization, this is how you get New York or New Orleans etc.)

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Just like the candy named Negro was invented by Pietro Negro, an Italian confectioner, who immigrated to Hungary. He gave his inventions his own family name.

German names of Hungarian cities are weird in general. Sopron is called Ödenburg, which means "bleak castle", for no apparent reason, Győr is called Raab and Szombathely is called Steinamanger (stone on the hill). Most interesting is Bratislava, though (which isn't Hungarian, I know), which has three very different names: Bratislava in Slovenian, Pozsony in Hungarian and Pressburg in German. Names are fascinating, because they can tell us so much about the history of a place!

It seems like the Hungarian word is related to the city’s German name before 1945, Breslau.

@@martinwebermann4252 German kinda influenced Hungarian

Hey Sara! We have two videos about that, which were definitely a lot of fun to record: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VwYike1mp6c.html

What about Monday? -.-

@@mianormalis That is an exact literal translation of the Russian word понедельник, which means start of the week. Or head of the week. Tuesday means the next day, the second day.

@@gergelylazar6647 Ponedelnik means 'after Sunday'

Hétfő (Monday) obviously comes from "hét" (week, also number seven) and "fő" (head in older Hungarian) i.e head of the week. Kedd (Tuesday) comes from "kettedik" (which means second in an archaic form) and later it was simplified to "kedd". Szerda (Wednesday) comes from the slavic "sreda/streda/srijeda" (middle) word. Csütörtök (Thursday) also has slavic origins (četrtek/csetvrtek=fourth). Péntek may have come from the slavic word (piatok, pete= number five) or the greek penta (also five). Szombat (Saturday) has its roots in Hebrew (Sabbath), which shows this word came into Hungarian and other languages through Christianity and the Church. Vasárnap (Sunday) comes from "vásár" (fair, market) and "nap" (day).

@@gergelylazar6647 I highly doubt wandering Hungarians (Magyars) on the steppes were translating Russian words to name the first day of the week... Different peoples tend to find the same (or very similar) solutions when they give names to common phenomena.

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German is: Brüssel, Belgien Preßburg, Slowakei (today we also use Bratislava) Jerusalem, Israel Kopenhagen, Dänemark Athen, Griechenland Moskau, Russland Seoul, Südkorea

yeah, we use a lot of words in Hungarian that are borrowed from our Slavic neighbours.

Még csak nem is úgy :) "A fok a földrajztudományban - nem mérésügyi értelemben - egy környezetéből kiemelkedő földterület nagyobb vízfelületbe benyúló kiszögellését jelenti."

@@gergelycsontos1435 na basszus, ennyit a föci tanárunkról :D köszönöm a korrekciót !

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@@Riot076 I don't andestend. What do you mean?