{"id":"FEKETE1922-001","label":"Hajdúszoboszló board zúgattyú","people_or_site":"Hajdúszoboszló, Hajdú county","country_current":"Hungary","historic_region":"Hajdú district, Kingdom of Hungary","macroregion":"Europe / Central Europe","local_name":"zúgattyú (Fekete's Hajdúszoboszló term); regional synonyms búgató (Csallóköz), búgattyú (Alföld/Great Plain), bungató (Balaton), zungatyú (Heves), per Tolnai 1920","source_term":"zúgattyú","source_language":"Hungarian","object_description":"A board, usually of shingle-wood or even a ruler, about one-and-a-half to two spans long (roughly 30-50 cm), three to four fingers wide, thin as a stout book cover, its edges usually parallel though a well-made example narrows paddle-like toward one end; the narrow end carries either a hole or a small neck, to which half a meter to a meter of cord is tied.","function_summary":"Held by the cord's free end or a handle and driven in a wide circle so the board spins rapidly about its own long axis, giving off a rising droning hum; Fekete recalled it from his own Hajdúszoboszló boyhood and explicitly distinguished it from two other, unrelated two-hole button/rod buzzers spun on twisted thread.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"fekete1922_hajduszoboszlo_zugattyu","source_type":"ethnographic_journal_article","source_url":"https://real-j.mtak.hu/17304/1/Ethnographia_1922_033.pdf","page_or_plate":"Fekete 1922, Ethnographia 33:104; Tolnai 1920, Ethnographia 31:113-114","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Hajdúszoboszló town center, Hajdú-Bihar county, Hungary — the town Fekete names as his own childhood setting.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A board thin as a shingle, pierced at one end and tied to a meter of cord: swing it in a wide circle and it spins on its own long axis, rising into a drone. Péter Fekete grew up whirling one like this on Hungary's Great Plain at Hajdúszoboszló, careful even as a boy to keep it separate from two other backyard buzzers — a button and a drilled cane rod, both spun on twisted thread — that hummed by pulling rather than swinging. Neighboring regions called the same board búgató, bungató, or zungatyú.","pull_quote":"Másfél-kétaraszos deszkalemez, szélessége három-négyujjnyi, vastagsága lehető csekély... keskeny végén vagy lyuk van, vagy egy kis nyélszerü nyakacska, melyre fél vagy egész méter jóféle madzag köthető... Már most a madzag szabad véginél, vagy a nyelénél fogva az egészet nagy körben forgatják, hajtják, miközben a falemez hosszanti tengelye körül sebesen pörögve zúgó, búgó hangot hallat.","pull_quote_translation":"A board one-and-a-half to two spans long, three to four fingers wide, as thin as possible... at its narrow end there is either a hole or a small neck-like handle, to which half a meter or a full meter of good cord can be tied... Now, holding the cord's free end or its handle, the whole thing is swung in a big circle, driven around, while the board, spinning rapidly about its long axis, gives off a droning, humming sound.","pull_quote_cite":"Tolnai Vilmos, 'Zúgattyú,' Ethnographia 31 (1920), p. 114, cited by H. Fekete Péter, 'Zugattyú-bugattyú,' Ethnographia 33 (1922), p. 104, recalling his own Hajdúszoboszló boyhood.","term_gloss":"zúgattyú: Hungarian, 'the buzzing/droning thing,' from zúg 'to hum, buzz, roar' plus an instrumental suffix; regional synonyms recorded by Tolnai include búgató (Csallóköz), búgattyú (the Great Plain/Alföld), bungató (Lake Balaton), and zungatyú (Heves) — all onomatopoeic.","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"H. Fekete Péter, 'Zugattyú-bugattyú,' Ethnographia 33 (1922), pp. 104–105; Tolnai Vilmos, 'Zúgattyú,' Ethnographia 31 (1920), pp. 113–114","url":"https://real-j.mtak.hu/17304/1/Ethnographia_1922_033.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20251020090144/https://real-j.mtak.hu/17304/1/Ethnographia_1922_033.pdf"}],"source_citations":"H. Fekete Péter, 'Zugattyú-bugattyú,' Ethnographia 33 (1922), pp. 104–105; Tolnai Vilmos, 'Zúgattyú,' Ethnographia 31 (1920), pp. 113–114","source_display":"H. Fekete Péter, 'Zugattyú-bugattyú,' Ethnographia 33 (1922), pp. 104–105; Tolnai Vilmos, 'Zúgattyú,' Ethnographia 31 (1920), pp. 113–114","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A board, usually of shingle-wood or even a ruler, about one-and-a-half to two spans long (roughly 30-50 cm), three to four fingers wide, thin as a stout book cover, its edges usually parallel though a well-made example narrows paddle-like toward one end; the narrow end carries either a hole or a small neck, to which half a meter to a meter of cord is tied.","function_display":"Held by the cord's free end or a handle and driven in a wide circle so the board spins rapidly about its own long axis, giving off a rising droning hum; Fekete recalled it from his own Hajdúszoboszló boyhood and explicitly distinguished it from two other, unrelated two-hole button/rod buzzers spun on twisted thread.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"hajd szoboszl","display_name":"Hajdúszoboszló board zúgattyú","image":{"full":"assets/objects/GONCZI1914-001_gonczi1914-001-nm-44622.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/GONCZI1914-001_gonczi1914-001-nm-44622_thumb.jpg","alt":"A plain Kissziget zúgattyú blade, drilled near one end and marked with handwriting near the other.","credit":"Néprajzi Múzeum (Museum of Ethnography), Budapest, NM 44622","license":"Rights reserved (© Néprajzi Múzeum); image reproduction authorization required; proposed for non-commercial research","source_page":"https://gyujtemeny.neprajz.hu/hu/collection/item/101077918/","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A Kissziget zúgattyú board, Néprajzi Múzeum.","pool_id":"auto-GONCZI1914-001_gonczi1914-001-nm-44622"},"slug":"fekete1922-001-hajduszoboszlo-hajdu-county"}