Samuel,

FENYES (with an acute accent on the first 'e') means 'shiny' in Hungarian. It was a common Hungarized Jewish family name, probably rooted in the German words SCHEIN or GLANZ (umlaut on the 'a').

The initial 'fe' is pronounced as in the French word 'caffe'. The 'ny' is pronounced as the 'ny' in 'canyon'. The second 'e' is pronounced as the 'a' in 'Larry'. The ending 's' is pronounced as the 'sh' in 'shame'.

If you use a Soundex converter <http://www.jewishgen.org/jos/jossound.htm>, you will discover that phonetically FENIAS and FENYES are equal (Daitch-Mokotoff code 764000, NARA code F520).

I hope this helps
Tom

At 01:00 -0500 08.10.2004, H-SIG digest wrote:

Subject: Hungarian Pronunciation of Fenyes
From: Joan Kraus <jnskraus@...>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:41:23 -0700
X-Message-Number: 7

Would Fenias be a way
to pronounce Fenyes?

Samuel Kraus

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Tom Venetianer <mailto:tom.vene@...>
Sao Paulo - Brazil