Short Polish<->English translations

Thanks for all the help!

For this one, I'm aiming for 'crazy' girl, or maybe 'silly'?

With the donuts, I think I was just being unclear, talking about the kind with the candied orange peel on top. :)


The item is a dress.

The book is modern day.


Is there an option more contemporary then?


I was worried about that! Any suggestions on something that would sound more up to date? Is jedyna moja better? The character here is slightly old-fashioned in his temperament, but he is a young man (late 20s).

Also thanks for the options on the alcohol. I didn't want him forever drinking brandy, it's seems cliché for a Polish character.

@blair2000▲ 0▼ 0

szalona?


but in my experience not that common in Poland (I think of it as a Czech or Yugoslav, it might be more common in southern Poland...) but koniak... (nalewka would be good and very Polish but it's usually a lot weaker)

a dress would be doskonała

@mafketis▲ 0▼ 0

Depends what kind of nalewka it is...


A man in his 20' would go for vodka, if contemporary anything really depending on his story and background. If you have something stereotypical in mind it could be a drink like zubrowka with an apple juice.

If a dress - doskonale, doskonala or swietnie, Not doskonaly.

Instead of fajnie - dobrze, dobra.

moja jedyna rather than jedyna moja it sounds like he is mocking her or is not quite serious. If that is some life and dead situation he would use her name rather than some endearing substitute.


kochanie, sloneczko, mala, zlotko, serduszko...thing is I'm not that young so that could be outdated too but it is still better than that cheesy bit from 40 years ago or more. lol

@Ironside▲ 0▼ 0

To steady his nerves? That's the context I understood from the short passage (could be wrong of course). I don't think 20 year olds go for żołądkowa (another thought of mine...)

I like żubrówka but not sure if people drink it straight (again how I understood).

@mafketis▲ 0▼ 0

I wouldn't know I don't drink to steady my nerves.


Some do...I think in that circumstances he would drink anything he had on hand. In that case it would be a beer, I doubt 20' years old keep bottles of strong spirits laying around,

@Ironside▲ 0▼ 0

This is a nice letter in the form of a neat rhyming poem.
One sister named Pesia (diminutive from Pelagia? or maybe a nickname) writes to another something like this:

In memoriam
May you be among the scents of the rose
So that you can spend your life merrily
Lest you experience the world storm
That happiness and honor adorn your forehead
And when the sky is cloudy sometimes
And the sorrow overwhelms your heart
Remember that there is no rose without thorns
And there are no happy people in this world
Sister Pesia signed in

Translation made by Google

@Looker▲ 0▼ 0

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Is this old letter in Polish?

I recently found an old letter from an ancestor that supposedly lived in Eastern Slovakia in the late 1800's. I am trying to find someone to translate the letter but need to find out what language I need translated. It was suggested to me that it is either Polish or Hungarian. There are 2 pages I placed them online so you can preview them at:

bit.ly/3bM8SFz
I appreciate any help someone can offer.
Thank you.

@Rix8▲ 0▼ 0

Doesn't look like Polish to me..... I'm not sure if it looks much like modern Slovak either....

My guess is some kind of non-standard Slovak. You definitely need a Slovak specialist for it.

You might contact these folks.

korpus.sk/contact.html

@mafketis▲ 0▼ 0

yes, it does look Slovak - I have no idea whether it's standard or a dialect

@gumishu▲ 0▼ 0

My mother often used to say this. Would like to know the meaning. I may not spell it right. (Sha Clef holeta) Last word sounded like coleta.

@arielpom▲ 0▼ 0

my guess:
psiakrew (dog blood)

cholera (cholera, the disease)

both are relatively mild expletives

@mafketis▲ 0▼ 0

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L'viv nobility record 1831 translation

I have been researching family in Poland and came across this note in the :L'viv nobility records l would like to know what it says!

@Galicia seeker▲ 0▼ 0

How would you say these phrases in Polish?
As far as i know
It seems to me

@amiga500▲ 0▼ 0

You are asking coz you don`t know? I thought you marked Speaks Polish? box in your profile as Yes.

Z tego co wiem
Wydaje mi się

@pawian▲ 0▼ 0

Yes but I think in English then speak in polish, and i am missing a few key phrases that i have never used.

@amiga500▲ 0▼ 0

or

O ile wiem.

?

@mafketis▲ 0▼ 0

O ile to wiem sounds more negative, as in I don't know much?
What about the phrase more like
as in Bonobo? More like a baboon
edit. - The computer says raczej

@amiga500▲ 0▼ 0

Don't believe what computers tell you!
'O ile wiem' and 'z tego co wiem' are synonymous.

@Ziemowit▲ 0▼ 0

Now my question re eng-pol tanslations. The following sentence is somewhat incomprehensible to me. Here is the whole pasage:

The freaks to which image-worship led were often most grotesque: it was, for example, a well-known practice to make a favorite picture the godfather of a child in baptism, by scraping off a little of its paint and mixing it with the baptismal water. [text refers to the times of Byzantine Emperor Leo III the Isaurian]

The sense of this piece in bold is unclear to me.

@Ziemowit▲ 0▼ 0

To me as well.... I imagine... that the godfather of a child about to be baptized scrapes some paint from a painting (icon?) he likes and mixes it with baptismal water... but beyond that....

It reads like a bad translation, do you have any idea what the original language was (or what the language of the author is)?

@mafketis▲ 0▼ 0

This is a book by Charles Oman, an Oxford scholar, which was written in 1893, first published in 1898 by Rivingtons. Charles Oman is introduced as M.A, F.S.A, Fellow of All Souls College and Lecturer at New College, Oxford. The language is fine and the book reads as well as if it were written these days. The narrative feels truly modern except for a few archaisms, for example: using the term 'host' rather than 'army' or 'ere' instead of 'before' and a number of some other.

The title of the book is "The Dark Ages. 476-918" and it has been made into an e-book in 2017. So this mistake in it might be due to the transcription of the original text into the electronic version perhaps.


Yes, this makes sense to me as it goes well with rest of this passage on superstitions of the time.

@Ziemowit▲ 0▼ 0

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Translation of short doc from handwritten Polish to English please!

Found in nobility records in L'viv - my gr gr grandfather Thomas Fedun married Anastasia Ostrawski in 1831. Very much want to know if this might be him - story goes that he lost his name when he married

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  ThomasOstrowski.jpg
  

@Galicia seeker▲ 0▼ 0

The document was made in Kołomyja (Polish name) in 1831, now in ... God and Google only know where the city belongs now, possibly to Ukraine. Letters are too small for me to decipher the text. Possibly it is in German. Please make an enlarged image of this piece.

@Ziemowit▲ 0▼ 0

Kołomyja is in western Ukraine, south of Lwów/Lviv (about 200 km from Lwów)

@gumishu▲ 0▼ 0

Hasn't Romania taken it away from Ukraine yet?

@Ziemowit▲ 0▼ 0

Yes, it looks like German, I noticed a-umlaut. Kołomyja was in Austrian partition zone since 1772.


It won`t help. I did it - to no avail - that font is utterly impossible to decipher. Only Thomas Ostrow is intelligible.

@pawian▲ 0▼ 0

Assuming that was the town in what is now Ukraine.
What if it was from the village in Podlasie?

@Miloslaw▲ 0▼ 0

Try to think logically for a while. Did you read the OP`s request at all??
She adopted the nickname Galicia seeker and mentioned Lvov.

Where is Lvov and where is Podlasie? :):)

@pawian▲ 0▼ 0

here is machine translation by google translate

Dawn, the droplets of sleep tremble in the fog,
footprint on light moss,
Bareza, the cold is already drawing the net on the glass,
Twilight sews a cloak from the clouds for the pines.
This is my place on earth
Here is my time, let it last forever.
Dawn gathers frost from the willow roads
a trace of all the springs gone by here,
The faces of the suns are already red by the cold,
Twilight, on dogs' fur, rushes into the heather.
This is my place on earth
Here is my time, let it last forever.
Dawn burns from above ...

now about the word bareza what is that?
and is the lyrics in polish is fully correct or is there something missing in lyrics

@cunningdiplomat▲ 0▼ 0

You forgot to say the magic word. :):) Actually, two magic words.

@pawian▲ 0▼ 0