козакъ
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Old East Slavic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Kazakh қазақ (qazaq), 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).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /kɔˈzɑkʊ/
- (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /kɔˈzakʊ/
- (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /kɔˈzak/
- Hyphenation: ко‧за‧къ
Noun[edit]
козакъ (kozakŭ)
Descendants[edit]
- Belarusian: каза́к (kazák)
- Russian: каза́к (kazák), коза́к (kozák); коза́къ (kozák)
- Ukrainian: коза́к (kozák)
References[edit]
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “казак”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- ^ “Cossack”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.