Doom
Tünde is a female given name in the Hungarian-speaking area. It is a new creation by the writer Mihály Vörösmarty . It was invented for the play Csongor és Tünde (1831), which is based on Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream .
The name is an abbreviation of the Hungarian word tündér (' fairy ').
The nickname is Tündi .
Well-known namesake
- Tünde Csonkics (* 1958), Hungarian chess master
- Tünde Vaszi (* 1972), Hungarian long jumper
Web links
- Mért nem vagy te Júlia? In: hvg , No. 16, 2009 (Article on Hungarian literary first names in the Hungarian weekly newspaper hvg, Hungarian, only for registered users)
- Csongor és Tünde , mek.oszk.hu (The play in the Hungarian original)