Ceauşescu and Comăneci 's meaning
Hello, i'm looking for the surname
Ceauşescu and Comăneci's meaning,i knew these surname's
origin are ROMANIAN.
but i couldn't found the meaning, so i need your help.first, Ceauşescu is
surname of Nicolae Ceaușescu(1918~1989).
who was a Communist leader of Romania
until been executed in 1989.and Comăneci is surname of
Nadia Elena Comăneci(1961~), former qymnast
who awarded a perfect score of 10 in 1976 olympic games.does anyone know these two surname's real meaning and respond it, please?
vote up1vote down

Replies

Ceausescu is most probably coming from Turkish. Cavuş means army sergeant in Turkish. So i would say that is derived from Turkish. I do not have any clue about Komaneci though.
vote up1vote down
As a romanian guy, I might know what Ceausescu means. It may come from the word "cenușă", meaning "ash".
Comăneci might come from the romanian surname Coman.
vote up1vote down
Cavuş means 'Sergeant' in Turkish. His name-sake ancestor probably served as a sergeant.
vote up1vote down
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.
vote up1vote down
ceauş: a loanword from Turkishhttp://eurodict.com/ÇAVUŞ+searchid-44633-ed_tr_en.html
vote up1vote down
This Turkish word is also present in the Armenian surname Chavushian, and an Arabic surname, Shawish.
vote up1vote down