козакъ

козакъ

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Kazakh казак (kazak), from a Turkic word quzzāq meaning “free man, wanderer," from Old Turkic [script needed] (*qazǧaq, “profiteer”), from [script needed] (qazǧanmaq, “to acquire”), from [script needed] (qazmaq, “to dig out”), from Proto-Turkic *kaŕ-.[1]. Compare Ottoman Turkish قازاق‎ (qazaq), قزّاق‎ (qazzaq).

Noun

козакъ (kozakŭ)

1. Cossack
2. worker

Descendants

• Belarusian: каза́к (kazák)
• Russian: каза́к (kazák), коза́к (kozák); коза́къ (kozák)
  • → Aleut: Kasakax̂
  • → Danish: kosak
  • → Ingrian: kazakka
  • → Finnish: kasakka
  • → Romanian: cazac
  • → Proto-Samic:
    • Kildin Sami: kаs (kas, “servant”)
  • → Yup'ik: kass'aq
• Ukrainian: коза́к (kozák)
  • Hungarian: kozák
  • → Polish: Kozak
    • Middle French: cosaque, cosache
      • → Dutch: kozak
      • → English: Cossack
      • French: cosaque
  • Slovak: kozák
  • → Yiddish: קאָזאַק‎ (kozak)

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “казак”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

1. “Cossack”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.