Re: Beowulf was the king of Goths /redux/
From: Alan Crozier (alan.crazier_at_telia.com)
Date: 11/13/04
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Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 15:58:14 GMT
"Stelucia" <Stelucia@altavista.net> wrote in message
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> "Alan Crozier" <alan.crazier@telia.com> wrote in message
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> > "Stelucia" <Stelucia@altavista.net> wrote in message
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> >
> > <snip>
> > > As a note,
> > > "ungurean" doesn't mean a Hungarian, it means a Romanian from
> > > Transylvania, also called Tara Ungureasca.
> >
> > Interesting. So what do the Romanians call the Hungarians to distinguish
> > them from the Romanians of Transylvania? Is it "ungur"?
> >
> > Alan
>
> Alan
>
> In Romanian language, the suffix "ean" designates a geographical
> origin, not ethnicity. The archaic word "ungurean" was used until the
> middle of XIX century to label an ethnic Romanian from Transylvania.
> Nowadays we use the term "ardelean" for a Romanian of Transylvanian
> origin, Ardeal being the Romanian name for Trasylvania.
> Moldovean means a person from Moldova and muntean a person from
> Muntenia but also someone originally from the mountains ("munte" is
> mountain in Romanian).
>
> As for Hungarians, they are usually called maghiar/maghiari if they
> are ethnic Hungarians living in Romania and ungur/unguri if they are
> citizens of Hungary. Following a similar pattern, the term "moldovean"
> is used for people living in the Romanian province of Moldova while
> the citizens of Republic of Moldova are informally called
> basarabean/basarabeni as the Moldova between Prut and Dniestr was also
> known under the name of Basarabia.
Multumesc
Alan
-- Alan Crozier Lund Sweden
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