A „biboldó” romani kölcsönzés eredete és használata a magyar nyelvben
The origin and use of the Romani loanword biboldó in the Hungarian language

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the results of a multi-respondent questionnaire survey on familiarity with, and certain characteristics of the usage of, Hungarian words of Romani origin among majority speakers, on the example of biboldó ‘Jew(ish)’. The paper argues that the increased use of Romani loanwords also affects colloquial language. The change identified in the majority of the words studied is now independent of the Romani language, and the use of and familiarity with the words is associated with the speaker’s sex, social background, region and education, among other factors. Based on the lexeme biboldó, the paper shows that there is a difference between active and passive word knowledge, which is related to meaning, especially in the case of taboo words.

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