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1800s

Hungarian words first recorded in the 19th century

3 Hungarian words whose earliest known written record dates from the 19th century, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.

  1. figyel

    1808

    It is a back-formation from figyelem “attention”, made in the period of the language reform: the old language had only ⟨figyelem⟩ and its derivatives figyelmez and figyelmes, not the verb. The…

  2. tényleg

    1830

    It is from Hungarian tény (“fact”) + -leg, a word of the language reform. ÚESz describes it as a case form that became fixed, and compares the noun use of such forms in előleg and fölösleg. Its base…

  3. srác

    1888

    It is a loan from Yiddish, probably also through German argot. The sources quote the Yiddish word for “child” in German transcription as ⟨schraz⟩ and ⟨sch'raz⟩, and compare German schratz and…

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