Re: Cossack vs Kazakh

I've always wondered this myself, and I'm not helped
by the fact that I know a lot more about Kazakhs than
Cossacks.  I should see a couple of friends this week,
one who is a Russian major and one who is Russian.  If
I don't see them, I'll e-mail them.

Dana
Clint


--- Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> 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_.
>
>
> -Stephen (Steg)
>  "'winter' in lebanese arabic is [SIti:]...
hrrrmmm..."


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