Three Hungarian name questions
I found these names on the Hungarian Name Days list, but not in the Hungarian category of the database.
1. Is Alex male, female, or unisex in usage?
2. I'm 99% sure that Adél is female, but I want confirmation please.
3. Is Buda male or female, or unisex? I tried searching for it, but came up with only surnames and pages on the former place called Buda.
TIA!
EDIT: Added Buda, to save board space.
Miranda
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1. Is Alex male, female, or unisex in usage?
2. I'm 99% sure that Adél is female, but I want confirmation please.
3. Is Buda male or female, or unisex? I tried searching for it, but came up with only surnames and pages on the former place called Buda.
TIA!
EDIT: Added Buda, to save board space.
Miranda
Proud adopter of 15 punctuation marks; see my profile for their names.
This message was edited 6/10/2005, 2:21 PM
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According to my Hungarian names books:
1. Alex is masculine.
2. Adél is feminine.
3. Buda is masculine.
1. Alex is masculine.
2. Adél is feminine.
3. Buda is masculine.
Hey Miranda,
Have you seen the official Hungarian names list? It's in Hungarian of course, but all you really need to know is that:
Nõi név = girl's name
Férfi név = boy's name
Keresztenév = Christian name
Becenév = nickname
http://www.origo.hu/utonevtar/index.html
:-)
♦ Chrisell ♦
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
Have you seen the official Hungarian names list? It's in Hungarian of course, but all you really need to know is that:
Nõi név = girl's name
Férfi név = boy's name
Keresztenév = Christian name
Becenév = nickname
http://www.origo.hu/utonevtar/index.html
:-)
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
Thanks! This should keep me busy for a while! :-)
Miranda
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Woohoo, Hungarian names! I can't really say anything more than Chrisell, except about Buda.
1. Alex: as a full formal name, Alex is a male name. However, an Alexandra can also have the informal nn Alex.
2. ADél is female, the Hun. form of Adele.
3. Buda is male: according to a myth he was the elder brother of Attila the Hun (as you may now, it's a popular belief - though not true - that the Hungarians are related to the Huns). The reason why you found it as a place name is because our capital, Budapest, was made from the uniting of two small towns, Buda and Pest it the 1800s.
Hungary is a conservative country when it comes to naming: we have no unisex names...
I hope my little lecture was not too boring :-)
1. Alex: as a full formal name, Alex is a male name. However, an Alexandra can also have the informal nn Alex.
2. ADél is female, the Hun. form of Adele.
3. Buda is male: according to a myth he was the elder brother of Attila the Hun (as you may now, it's a popular belief - though not true - that the Hungarians are related to the Huns). The reason why you found it as a place name is because our capital, Budapest, was made from the uniting of two small towns, Buda and Pest it the 1800s.
Hungary is a conservative country when it comes to naming: we have no unisex names...
I hope my little lecture was not too boring :-)
Well, first of all, the stress is always on the first syllabe of the word (thus also on names).
Secondly, a is always pronounced more or less like uh or ah, and i is always short, like in "milk".
So it is like UH-till-luh
Secondly, a is always pronounced more or less like uh or ah, and i is always short, like in "milk".
So it is like UH-till-luh
Thank you!!
Thank you, that little lecture wasn't boring at all! :-)
Yes, I learned all about Buda and Pest in my little search. :-) I figured Adél was Adele, too, but as I said I wanted confirmation. Alex could've been a form of Alice (as Alix is) in addition to possibly being a unisex name, hence my confusion.
Though I pronounce AW and AH the same, I've recently been on a kick for Hungarian names because of their nice sounds (well, at least the sounds as listed in BtN, hehe).
Miranda
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Yes, I learned all about Buda and Pest in my little search. :-) I figured Adél was Adele, too, but as I said I wanted confirmation. Alex could've been a form of Alice (as Alix is) in addition to possibly being a unisex name, hence my confusion.
Though I pronounce AW and AH the same, I've recently been on a kick for Hungarian names because of their nice sounds (well, at least the sounds as listed in BtN, hehe).
Proud adopter of 15 punctuation marks; see my profile for their names.