[Fictionary] ORRA commentary from the voting assembly

[Hutch]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Fran Poodry <fpoodry at gmail.com> wrote:
[snippety]

>
> 0 points:orra - interj. - "By all the gods!" [(fr. Ugr.) orale rea: lit.
> on the heads of the gods be it]
>
> (Hutch)
>
> 0 points from Pierre: "I know there's a five-letter word (isten) for
> "god", but I have a hard time believing a five-letter word for "the heads
> of the gods". ("rea" is Old Hungarian for "on"; its Modern Hungarian
> descendant is "-re" or "-ra".)"
>
> 0 points from Jim: "Not sure what Ugr is... Uighur??"
>
> 0 points from Jean-Joseph: "I can't even guess what that source language
> would be."
>

"Ugr" = "Ugric", the actual name (at least according James Michener) of the
Hungarian language. I had been reading Michener's book _The Bridge at
Andau_ about the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. In it he mentions some real
word in modern Hungarian that is a "contraction" like the one I faked up.
The idea for my fictionition arose from the fact that the real word ended
in "-ra" = "on".

I hoped that someone would know--as Pierre did--that "-ra" meant "on", but
NOT know that "orale" doesn't mean a damn thing. *LOL*

BB,
Hutch

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