German: Sturz (as in Türsturz)
This one took some looking; normally you don't see it without Tür- in front of it. It's a lintel.
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Monday, August 5, 2013
Boldog Asszony hava
Hungarian: Boldog Asszony hava
Wow. Hungarian has alternate traditional names for the months...
January: Boldog Asszony hava - Month of the Happy Wife
February: Böjtelő hava - Pre-Lenten Month, I think
March: Böjtmás hava - uh, Post-Lenten Month?
April: Szent György hava - Month of St. George
May: Pünkösd hava - Month of Pentecost, or, whimsically, "Whitmonth". (No, that's not a real word.)
June: Szent Iván hava - Month of St. Ivan
July: Szent Jakab hava - Month of St. Jacob
August: Kis Asszony hava - Month of the Maiden
September: Szent Mihály hava - Month of St. Michael
October: Mindszent hava - All Saint's Month
November: Szent András hava - Month of St. Andreas
December: Karácsony hava - Christmas Month
(From a genealogical glossary.)
This sort of thing rocks my world. Hungarian culture goes down and down and down.
Wow. Hungarian has alternate traditional names for the months...
January: Boldog Asszony hava - Month of the Happy Wife
February: Böjtelő hava - Pre-Lenten Month, I think
March: Böjtmás hava - uh, Post-Lenten Month?
April: Szent György hava - Month of St. George
May: Pünkösd hava - Month of Pentecost, or, whimsically, "Whitmonth". (No, that's not a real word.)
June: Szent Iván hava - Month of St. Ivan
July: Szent Jakab hava - Month of St. Jacob
August: Kis Asszony hava - Month of the Maiden
September: Szent Mihály hava - Month of St. Michael
October: Mindszent hava - All Saint's Month
November: Szent András hava - Month of St. Andreas
December: Karácsony hava - Christmas Month
(From a genealogical glossary.)
This sort of thing rocks my world. Hungarian culture goes down and down and down.
Thursday, August 1, 2013
consignations
French: consignations
Everything in French is always so vague. Sure, "consignation" means "consignment" - but in a technical management context, consignations means log.
Everything in French is always so vague. Sure, "consignation" means "consignment" - but in a technical management context, consignations means log.
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Zeichnungsteile
German: Zeichnungsteil
Custom parts. Called this not because they're part of a drawing, but rather that a drawing must be included in the order to specify them because they're parts that aren't in a catalog.
Custom parts. Called this not because they're part of a drawing, but rather that a drawing must be included in the order to specify them because they're parts that aren't in a catalog.
Monday, June 3, 2013
Sole
German: Sole
This one gets me every time. It's brine - what kind of etymology could it possibly have? Solebehälter, brine tank.
This one gets me every time. It's brine - what kind of etymology could it possibly have? Solebehälter, brine tank.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Schallhärte
German: Schallhärte
Acoustic impedance. Another one of those words that's obvious, but only in retrospect.
Acoustic impedance. Another one of those words that's obvious, but only in retrospect.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
We
Hungarian: We (blood test)
Sometimes the abbreviations don't make sense. Given Hungarian blood tests results, I had "We" - measured in mm/h. So ... obviously the sed rate, right? You'd think. But what does "We" stand for? The actual translation of sedimentation rate for blood is vörösvértest süllyedés. No "W" at all - and in fact, "W" is not a letter normally used in Hungarian in the first place.
So as it turns out, We is the abbreviation used for sed rate, as confirmed by this helpful page of lab test abbreviations in Hungarian, but I still don't know its etymology.
Sometimes the abbreviations don't make sense. Given Hungarian blood tests results, I had "We" - measured in mm/h. So ... obviously the sed rate, right? You'd think. But what does "We" stand for? The actual translation of sedimentation rate for blood is vörösvértest süllyedés. No "W" at all - and in fact, "W" is not a letter normally used in Hungarian in the first place.
So as it turns out, We is the abbreviation used for sed rate, as confirmed by this helpful page of lab test abbreviations in Hungarian, but I still don't know its etymology.
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