| kezdi: Re: Fogarasi | The "i" in your name is a common Hungarian name creating possesive suffix. Attached to a geographical name means that a person is belonging to or from that particular place, like a New York(er). It's sister suffix "y" has the same meaning with an aristocratic flare.
So, the "i" stripped name Fogaras is/was a Hungarian geographical name, bearing the name of a County, a town, a village, and the most famous Mountain range of the southern Carpathians. It's hard to tell exactly which place the name originated from without knowing the background. The most likely would be Fogaras, a town in the old Fogaras County of Hungary, named after the mountain range, now it's in Romania and called Fagaras. But can't ignore Bereg-Fogaras either, a village in the old Bereg County of Hungary, Munkácsi District, now it's in Ukraine and called Zubivka.
Further breaking down the word Fogaras, Fog means Tooth in Hungarian, Fogaras in archaic Hungarian means Teeth like. Some say the Fogaras mountain range looks like a giant saw, or a row of teeth, hence the name from. |
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