Re: Cossack vs Kazakh
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 12, 2002, 19:45 |
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:23:21 -0500 Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
writes:
> An infuriating paragraph in a book on Central Asia I recently read
> implies
> that, but does not actually say whether, the words "cossack" and
> "Kazakh"
> are spelt the same in Russian. Can anyone confim/deny?
> The same paragraph also states that the two words probably have a
> common origin. Is this the consensus view?
> Andreas
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Not knowing how either of those words are spelled in Russian, i can only
give circumstantial evidence:
_Cossack_ in Hebrew is _qozaq_, with (like in English) stop consonants at
the beginning and end of the word.
"Kazakh", spelled with a {kh}, seems to indicate that it probably ends in
/x/ or some similar fricative.
If _Cossack_ ended with a /x/ sound, Hebrew would have spelled it
_qozakh_ or _qozahh_.
-Stephen (Steg)
"'winter' in lebanese arabic is [SIti:]... hrrrmmm..."
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