Hungarian Genealogical Word List: Difference between revisions

Hungarian is unrelated to most European languages and only remotely related to Finnish and Estonian. Hungarian was used along with Latin and German in the records of all areas of the old kingdom of Hungary before 1918. This includes present-day Hungary, Slovakia, southwestern Ukraine, western Romania, Serbia, Croatia and the easternmost part of Austria. To read Hungarian records in these languages, use the Latin Genealogical Word List (34077) and German Genealogical Word List (34067). In addition, the Hungarian language may be found in the records of Hungarian communities in the United States, Canada, and other areas settled by Hungarians.

This table is in alphabetical order by the last letter of the ending.

| -a, -e

| of, his/her

|-

| -double consonant + á, é

| városi lány (town girl)

|-

| (plural)

| ház (house)

| házak (houses)

|-

| (indirect object)

|-

| -uk, -ük

| with

| lány férj

|-

| at, by

| város (town)

| városnál (at the town)

|-

| with

| anya (mother)

| anyaval (with the mother)

|-

| out of

| város (town)

| -ul, -ül

| -ly, as, for

|-

| of me, my

| ház (haz)

| házam (my house)

|-

| on

| föld (land)

| földön (on the land)

|-

| in

| város (town)

| várost ([I see the] town)

|-

| (past tense)

| születni, született

| to, towards

| város, városhoz

to the city

|}

Hungarian has several letter combinations that may be unfamiliar to English speakers and some letters are pronounced differently than in English (see the examples below). Because spelling rules were not standardized in earlier centuries, spelling varies in old records.

| c (cz, tz)

| ts

| ty

| tj

|-

| zs

The words in the following list usually show only the male form of words:

| '''A'''

|-

| a, az

|-

| '''B'''

|-

| bába

|-

| '''C'''

|-

| cél

|-

| '''D'''

|-

| d.e. = délelőtt

|-

| '''E'''

|-

| e

|-

| élső

|-

| elsőszülött

|-

| eskető

|-

| esküdött

|-

| '''F'''

|-

| f. = fi, fiú, fia

|-

| '''G'''

|-

| g.k. = görög katolikus

|-

| '''H'''

|-

| ha

|-

| helvét

|-

| helvétikus

|-

| '''I'''

|-

| id. = idősebb

|-

| '''J'''

|-

| jámbor

|-

| '''K'''

|-

| k.a. = kereszt apa/anya

|-

| '''L'''

|-

| l. = lány

|-

| '''M'''

|-

| m. = meghalt

|-

| '''N'''

|-

| n. = nagyságos

|-

| '''O'''

|-

| ó

|-

| '''P'''

|-

| pálankafőző

|-

| '''R'''

|-

| rabi

|-

| ref. = református

|-

| református

|-

| '''S'''

|-

| s

|-

| '''T'''

|-

| táblázat

|-

| Tiszáninnen

|-

| Tiszántúl

|-

| tíz

|-

| '''U'''

|-

| ugyanaz

|-

| '''V'''

|-

| vadász

|-

| '''Z'''

|-

| zöld

For example, in the first column you will find the English word marriage. In the second column you will find Hungarian words with meanings such as marry, marriage, wedding, wedlock, unite, legitimate, joined, and other words used in Hungarian records to indicate marriage.

| baptism(s)

kereszteltek, keresztelés, keresztelö, elnevez, megkeresztel

|-

| birth(s)

|-

| burial(s)

temet, temetés, elás, eltemetés, eltemetett, elföldelés

|-

| census

In some genealogical records, numbers are spelled out. This is especially true with dates. The following list gives the cardinal (1, 2, 3) and the ordinal (1st, 2nd, 3rd) versions of each number. Days of the month are written in ordinal form:

| 1 egy

| 1st els

'''Months'''

| I

| January

| September

| szeptember

|-

| X

| November

| november

|-

| XII

'''Days of the Week'''

| Sunday

| vasárnap

| szombat

|}