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Re: Ceauşescu and Comăneci 's meaning

by Lepic (guest)

8/21/2016, 10:43 AM

Ceauşescu is composed of ceauş 'courier, usher, deputy, messenger' and -escu 'son/daughter of'. Comăneci could be derived from the placename Comănicea but that's just speculation.

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- ceauş: a loanword from Turkish (guest) +1

8/22/2016, 11:54 PM

ceauş: a loanword from Turkish

http://eurodict.com/ÇAVUŞ+searchid-44633-ed_tr_en.html

- Jim Young (guest)

8/24/2016, 12:20 PM

This Turkish word is also present in the Armenian surname Chavushian, and an Arabic surname, Shawish.

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