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Peter Magyar wins historic Hungary election as Viktor Orban concedes (www.independent.co.uk)

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[-] prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

wait … are they related?

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 weeks ago

Magyar is an incredibly common Hungarian family name, it means "Hungarian".

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

It also basically means ‘man’ or ‘person’:

From Old Hungarian mogyër. The first element (‘mogy-’) is likely from Proto-Ugric ‘*mańćɜ’ (“man, person”). The second element, ‘-ër’ (“man”), retained in ‘ember’ (“man”) and ‘férj’ (“husband”), from Proto-Uralic ‘*irkä’ or ‘*ürkä’ (“man, son, boy”).

So Hungarians were super lazy in the choice of the last names, not even picking the profession or patronymic, but just ‘man’.