magyarism

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noun

A Hungarianism, a word or idiom of the Hungarian language borrowed by another language.

Scrabble 17

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magyarism1

nounmagyarism (plural magyarisms)

plural magyarisms

  1. rareAlternative letter-case form of Magyarism.

    (Lakatos, 4) Not only was Brahms influenced by Liszt but also by Jozsef Joachim, the great violinist. The Variations on a Hungarian Song, Op. 21 and his Zigeunerlieder are well-known, but "magyarisms" can be found in many of ...

    1997, Hungarian Studies: HS ; a Journal of the International Association of Hungarian Studies
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    Gerovskii concedes that the seventeenth-century Niagovo interpretive gospel is the first original monument of Carpatho-Rusyn literature, but he notes that it contains polonisms, magyarisms, and neologisms that hindered comprehension.

    2003, Elaine Rusinko, Straddling Borders: Literature and Identity in Subcarpathian Rus, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 327

Magyarism2

nounMagyarism (plural Magyarisms)

plural Magyarisms

  1. rhetoricA Hungarianism, a word or idiom of the Hungarian language borrowed by another language.

    They found the Rumanian nation firmly established, race and language, and the latter remained pure of Magyarisms, even in Transylvania.

    1915, David Mitrany, Rumania: Her History and Politics, page 7
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    Simonyi, Sigmund: Hungarian linguist; [...] has published the following works: [...] a historical dictionary of the Hungarian language; "Német és Magyar Szólások" (1895), on Teutonisms and Magyarisms; and (in collaboration with Balassa) a German-Hungarian dictionary (1899).

    1912, The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, page 376

    It was also noted that in any case there was a discernible trend towards internationalization of the modern lexicon particularly in specialist works, while in everyday language many of the Germanisms, Magyarisms, and Latinisms which had ...

    1998, G. S. Smith, C. M. MacRobert, G. C. Stone, Oxford Slavonic Papers, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 86

    A corpus of 317 Hungarian words was compiled from the prose of 24 Russian writers, & the Magyarisms are listed alphabetically, each illustrated with a quote from the text in which it was attested.

    2001, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts: LLBA

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