"Misnick" may have its origin in the Ukrainian word "mjasnik"
or in the German word "mies" meaning ugly, or rotten,
from which comes "Miesmacher" meaning killjoy.
"Misnick" may be someone who makes everything sound ugly or bad.
"jonte" is the Spanish spelling of "Chonte", which means prostitute,
or loose woman.
Mimi
On May 20, 2015, at 4:03 AM, Benjamin Grilj wrote:
> Dear Dyuri,
> ok, no - this is for sure not German, or austrian German.
> My free associations would be
> * misnik: could be from Russian/Ukrainian mjasnik, butcher. In
> German it was used as isult for rough people („du führst Dich auf
> wie ein Fleischer“ - „you act like a butcher")
> * Jonte is a northern european version (Skandinavian languages) of
> Johannes - but this makes no sense at all.
> * I have no idea about zazavagiv. If it would be „za zabavnik“ it
> would a antiquated Russian form of „at the humorous“. I don´t know,
> if this phrase is used in Russian, but the german translation „bei
> den Lustigen“ (what tend towards to todays "at the freak-show") is
> a slander.
> So, hopefully anyone has better ideas than me!
> Best, Benjamin
>
>
>> Am 20.05.2015 um 09:18 schrieb Jorge Gubitsch <dyurigub_at_gmail.com>:
>>
>> Benjamin: Than'ks, it's not german, the words are: misnick and jonte,
>> supposed to be somebody ugly and the second, a hooker, it's in my
>> mother's story about Czernovitz, maybe the spelling is wrong, since
>> she didn't speak it. The last word describes a man who sells
>> vegetables with two baskets wich are hold by a stick, the word is not
>> yiddish an I don't know if it's correct: zazavagiv.
>> Thank's again, Dyuri
>>
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