i love learning new language things. finally my first new word in hungarian for a long time: vörös it means red. reminds me of vermelho, and mel is honey and ver means beyond, i guess, so after you heat it it turns reddish, caramel. just the way both words start with VR.

a thing i learned from a casual dabble into semitic languages is the theory of consonant sequences being key to semantics in many languages. so when you see them, they often signify a connection of meaning.

i can't think of any pat examples off the top of my head but you will find it a lot words with similar meaning have a similar consonant sequence embedded in them. sometimes it can be hard to see without hearing it also. i didn't know that the o with two dots in hungarian is is a lot like the english vowel oo as in boo snoop spook. i thought it might relate to a similar sequence from a town name i encountered in bosnia, varosh, which is an archaici word for village.

no idea how they came to rename this town to a croatian word that means "dragon vllage". the lateral links to that are pretty tenuous if you talk about red feet then fire then dragon it's flimsy, but i guess they did that.

it's aspirational, anyway. but maybe when i look at the place i see dragons setting it all afire and not perching here with their pile of gold.