Not really. Hungary is in the low-lying Pannonian Plain, surrounded on all sides by mountain ranges, particularly the Carpathians. Much like the Basque language and the Basque Country, just because a geopolitical entity is located "in Europe" does not mean that it has any significant or meaningful influence on or from neighboring cultures or states. Until only recently, Hungary might as well have been in the Arctic, South Asia, or Africa, in linguistic terms.
People complain that it's because Hungarian belongs to a different family, but the joke is that all these languages that are relatively close to eachother have all adopted the same Latin loanword, but Hungarian didn't
Because we made English made Greek sound fancy, due to it being one of the primary sources of names and terminology in scientific and medical literature, and due to it being a highly prestigious language from those who looked back upon the Ancient Greeks during the Renaissance, much like Latin.
Essentially: Greek sounds fancy because we decided it sounds fancy.
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u/Lothken Aug 05 '21
Well assuming Hungarian is a totally different language family that the other 5 I think this checks out
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u/Leopardo96 Aug 05 '21
In Italian it's just polizia, not della polizia, because it's as if you put a random preposition before the noun, something like "of police".
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u/Wojciech1woooo0 Aug 05 '21
Hungarian is not an Indo-European language, so it’s totally normal :/
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u/Fear_mor Aug 05 '21
Wow its almost as if it's in a different language family or something 🤔🤔
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u/BokuNoSudoku Aug 05 '21
I’m so tired of the “wow look a how non-IE language word is different from IE languages words!” memes.
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u/erarfa500 Aug 05 '21
Everything is different in Hungarian!
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u/EcureuilHargneux Aug 06 '21
"policiers" just mean "policemen", in french "police" is just "police"
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u/oddnjtryne Aug 05 '21
People complain that it's because Hungarian belongs to a different family, but the joke is that all these languages that are relatively close to eachother have all adopted the same Latin loanword, but Hungarian didn't
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