Re: Cossack vs Kazakh

Steg Belsky wrote:
>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
>-
>
>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_.
>
In the romanizations of Kazakh I've seen, "Kazakh" is either "Kazak" or
"Qazaq", so I doubt that that final "kh" is /x/ or similar.

                                            Andreas

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