1600s

Hungarian words first recorded in the 17th century

1 Hungarian word whose earliest known written record dates from the 17th century, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.

1. mindig

   1659

   It is from Hungarian mind (“always”) + -ig, a case form fixed as a word: mind was an adverb “always” from 1552, and ⟨-ig⟩ (older ⟨-ég⟩) is the terminative ending, as in addig and meddig. The…

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