[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Wegierka Location

[Jutta Dennerlein]

Jerry,

I'm not sure if the results of an English Google research should be
used to 'outnumber' the experience of a native speaker of Polish
(Anna) !
The truth is not the result of 'what most people think' or 'what has
been published most times'.  

Especially not if the Google results mainly turn up 'Hungarian Plum
Dumplings' and 'Hungarian Plum pox virus isolates'.
In both cases 'Hungarian' does not relate to the Plum part of the
term. 

My Polish-German dictionary shows two meanings for Węgierka: 1.
Ungarin [Hungarian female], 2. Hauspflaume, Zwetschge.
Zwetschgen are exactly the kind of plums which the Niedrunger grew and
dried for selling as prunes.

But I really would like to hear more about these Hungarian females
settling in the swamps of the Vistula. 
Probably a matriarchy society - remains of the very old cultures of
Europe ! Let's Google for it ... 

Sorry for the cynicism

Jutta Dennerlein
www.upstreamvistula.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ger-poland-volhynia-bounces at eclipse.sggee.org 
> [mailto:ger-poland-volhynia-bounces at eclipse.sggee.org] On 
> Behalf Of Jerry Frank
> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 3:50 AM
> To: zglinka at wp.pl; ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Wegierka Location
> 
> 
> We have an 1837 map that shows it in the expected 
> location.  In both cases it shows We~gierka (with 
> the diacritic hook below the first e).  My Polish 
> / English dictionary shows We~gierski = of Hungary or Hungarian.
> 
> Your application of the word is probably correct 
> for the Hungarian Plum, a type of plum that can 
> be readily researched on the Internet using 
> GOOGLE.  See for example, "Polish Holiday 
> Cookery" by Robert Strybel, Page 214 (available in part 
> through GOOGLE Books).
> 
> 
> Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
> FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 06:26 PM 16/01/2009, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Anna_Zgli=F1ska?= wrote:
> >"Wegierki" is a plural form for polish plums. This is just a kind
of
> >fruit.
> >
> >Did you search on Messtischblatter maps?
> >
> >
> >Anna Zglinska
> >
> 
> 
> 
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