Baia Mare(Baia Mare / Siget in the project's index)2013-05-2011 min · 6 stretches · 6 questions about wordsYiddish 81% Hungarian 19%
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Summary
Camera file (10:40) from the 2013 expedition session in Baia Mare / Siget, with no interviewee named in the index. It opens with word elicitation on Romanian and Russian loan words and on baked foods (flat cakes, honey cakes, small ring-shaped pastries). A passage in Hungarian about childhood games follows. The last part is talk about the border crossing into Ukraine, the name of a town and its cemetery, and yahrzeit.
Stretches
00:00–01:34
Elicitation of words for a diminutive plural form, pancakes (panchikes (?)) and a flat plant-or-patterned cake, with remarks on Romanian and Russian equivalents. Kerler explains the diminutive ending and relates the forms to a common root. Words for baked sweets are also mentioned.
The informant describes baking at home in the oven. On Fridays every child got a flat cake made from the dough, and honey cakes and large rolls were also made. Kerler asks how small pastries (panchikelekh (?)) were made and what shape they had; she says they were baked in the oven in a figure-eight or ring shape (krendl). The stretch closes with a joke about remembering when one is old.
A passage largely in Hungarian about the number of children in the family and about childhood games on Saturday afternoon with cousins in the yard, including a hiding game. The Yiddish lines here are garbled.
Talk about the team's coming trip to Ukraine, the border crossing and whether passports are needed. The informant mentions a bridge not far from where they lived and the crossing near a place called Hasemezer (?). Kerler asks what the word for the border is.
Partly in Hungarian, about the bridge over the Tisza near a salt mill and the long road beyond it. The speakers discuss how to travel to the border and how many kilometres it is, and conclude that they must ask. The recording of this stretch is largely garbled.
Kerler asks the name of the whole region and a town; the informant says Marmaroș, and the town is called by a Romanian and a Hungarian name (Hatumzhe (?)). The word for field is discussed in connection with the Jewish cemetery (the Jewish field). Kerler proposes going to a place called Banditshe (?), and the talk ends with yahrzeit, which not everyone observes.