"A szakácsok nem olaszok, hanem spanyolok."

Translation: The cooks are not Italian, but Spanish.

[OlgaZubkov]

The chefs should also be accepted for szakacs

[Judit294350]

No - that is a different word in Hungarian - and quite different in English. A chef is much more than a cook. Completely differnt pay scale :-)

[Alexander577428]

What is the etymology behind the Hungarian word for Italy/Italian etc? :-)

[mizinamo]

Wiktionary says ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/olasz ) that it's a borrowing from a Slavic word similar to the Serbo-Croatian "Vlah, plural Vlasi" which means/meant something like "Vlach; Romanian; Italian; Latin" depending on the region and period.

[Denizfru]

Until 1861: Itália. Then: Olaszország. :) When we learn about the country's history.

[MrtonPolgr]

This sounds a little misleading. I'd say "Itália" is the territory (the Italian peninsula basically) that mostly appears in historical context yes, and "Olaszország" is a country.

[rivvnco]

How does " Italians" not work? It worked for me, Ackerbau.

[weitzhandler]

Spaniards?

[King86139]

I hear:
'Azokat csak nem olaszok hanem spanyolok.'
I know my listening skills are shit but would this sentence, generally spoken, also make sense in Hungarian?

[MrtonPolgr]

No, it wouldn't. "Azokat" absolutely doesn't fit and "csak" would require very specific justification as well.