<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Fran Poodry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fpoodry@gmail.com" target="_blank">fpoodry@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<div>[snippety] <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br><div dir="ltr"><span style><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">0 points:</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">orra - interj. - "By all the gods!" [(fr. Ugr.) orale rea: lit. on the heads of the gods be it]</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Hutch)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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".)”</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">0 points from Jim: “Not sure what Ugr is... Uighur??”</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">0 points from Jean-Joseph: “I can't even guess what that source language would be.”</span></p>
</span></span></div></blockquote></div><br><div><div class="gmail_extra">"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".<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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*<br>
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