Dictionary of Family Names in the Visegrad Countries
KOZÁK
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| Origin | of Slovak origin |
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| Type | Family name referring to internal or external characteristics, circumstances or event |
| Family name referring to an occupation, activity or social status | |
| Family name referring to some connection with an ethnic group |
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The name may be derived from the Slovak common noun kozák meaning ‘cossack, brown birch bolete (mushroom)’ and refers to a characteristic feature. It may also be derived from the Slovak ethnonym kozák ‘Cossack, free peasant serving as a cavalry soldier’ and refer to an occupation or a similarity to or a connection (descendence or other) with the people or the area they inhabit. Variant: Kozak. |