козакъ

Old East Slavic

Etymology

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
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /kɔˈzɑkʊ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /kɔˈzakʊ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /kɔˈzak/
  • Hyphenation: ко‧за‧къ

Noun

козакъ (kozakŭ)

  1. Cossack
  2. worker

Descendants

References
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “казак”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  1. “Cossack”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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