Piste Piste A piste () is a marked ski run or path down a mountain for snow skiing, snowboarding, or other mountain sports. This European term is French ("trail", "track") and synonymous with 'trail', 'slope', or 'groomed run' in North America. The word is pronounced using a long "e" sound (e.g. rhymes with "beast"). Increasingly, North Americans employ its common European antonym, 'off piste', to describe backcountry skiing, especially when referring to skiing outside officially approved areas of a ski resort. Pistes are usually maintained using tracked vehicles known as snowcats to compact or "groom" the snow to even out trail
French people in Hungary languages (Italian, French, Spanish etc.). (In Hungarian today the word "olasz" means Italian. At that time the word "talján" or "Lombardus" was in use for people of the Italian peninsula.) "Latini" in the Middle Ages was the common name of mainly members of the Western Congregation, while "Graeci" stood for the Eastern Church proponents. According to historians the name of Hungarian settlements containing the word "olasz" or "olaszi" could meant Walloon or French, because in German they are translated as "wallen". The French/Walloons settled especially in Upper Hungary (in Eger, in Spiš and in Tokaj-Hegyalja) and Transylvania (in Kolozsvár, in