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Medvenóta

Nagy időktől fogva úgy van,
hogy a medvék mézet esznek,
és az ovi fele útban
medvenótát énekelnek:

„Jöhet rézkor, bronzkor, vaskor,
szereti a mézet Vackor!”

[…]

„Kiscsoportban, nagycsoportban
ha van méz, a medve jól van,
jó neki a középsőben
ha van [a] mézecske bőven,
jöhet rézkor, bronzkor, vaskor,
szereti a mézet Vackor,
kicsi korban és nagy korban,
ha van méz, a medve jól van!”

—Tóth Krisztina (Új Forrás 2004. 2. szám)

Bearsong

Since long ago it is so
that bears eat honey,
and on the way to kindergarten
they sing a bearsong:

‘Come Copper Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age,
Vackor likes honey!’

[…]

‘In the junior group, in the senior group
if there is honey, the bear is all right,
he's all right in the middle group
if sweet honey is plenty,
come Copper Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age,
Vackor likes honey,
in low age and in high age
if there is honey, the bear is all right!’

Someone ought to make a translation in verse.

Comments

Re: Декабрясь сясь

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So it is, and to speakers of Hungarian its etymology is totally opaque. But then it isn't exactly transparent to speakers of Slavic languages either.

Re: Декабрясь сясь

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Aye, a popular folk etymology. Time has blurred the real makeup of the word, and some languages have helped it deliberately by /m/>/ń/ or by /m/↔/v/.