"Ők olaszok vagy oroszok?"

Translation: Are they Italian or Russian?

[JustinHuberts]

These words differ very badly from the languages I've known.

[norveeg]

"olasz" has Slavic origins, as I've just learnt. it comes from the south-slavic "vlasi" (=italian), through this transition: vlasz > ulasz > olasz. you can also say "talján" for Italian, but only a few people will understand this word, it is used so rarely...

[Kefir87]

"Vlasi" was originally not used for Italians, but for romance (latin) -language speaking nations of Balkans, that means mostlyRomanians and Vlachs.

[Gerardd88]

The Polish word for Italians is "Włosi". It must be connected with "vlasi". And it has a similar etymology: "Wołosi" means Vlachs.

[mizinamo]

You should be able to recognise at least the rosz in oroszok - I believe that's related to the Rus/Ros of Russian, russky, Rossiya, etc.

[JustinHuberts]

Yes, I did, but the 'o' at the beginning of the word got me confused.

[vvsey]

Prussian should not be a problem for you now! :)

[ChesyzChesy]

By the way, hungarians borrow lot of russian words or it language

[mizinamo]

hungarians borrow lot of russian words

There are certainly lots of Slavic words in Hungarian, but I don't think many were borrowed specifically from Russian.