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There's this girl at my school that I've had a horrible crush on for the past... year. Anyways, her last name is Rácz (she's Hungarian) and I looked it up for meaning, and found some interesting info about Hungarian names for nearby ethnic groups. Here's the list:
Lengyel - Polish - From P.S. *lędo (="fallow land"), name means "cultivator of fertile land" - Still used today
Oláh - Romanian - From Germanic "Vlach" - Still used in dialects according to a Romanian friend of mine
Tót - Slovak - ? - Dead
Rác - Serbian - ? - Dead
So, does anyone know where the archaic terms for Serb and Slovak come from?
On a non-linguistically related side note, Finland's Eurovision entry is hilarious. The Rockalypse is nigh!
Lengyel - Polish - From P.S. *lędo (="fallow land"), name means "cultivator of fertile land" - Still used today
Oláh - Romanian - From Germanic "Vlach" - Still used in dialects according to a Romanian friend of mine
Tót - Slovak - ? - Dead
Rác - Serbian - ? - Dead
So, does anyone know where the archaic terms for Serb and Slovak come from?
On a non-linguistically related side note, Finland's Eurovision entry is hilarious. The Rockalypse is nigh!