Kossuth (surname)
Kossuth is a surname. The word is of Slavic origin - a hornless forest animal, a female (doe) deer or roe deer. Ko - emphasizing prefix, šutý - hornless. Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Old Church Slavonic - košuta, košút means in Slovak also a castrated goat or a bossy person (dialect).[1]
Notable people with the surname include:
- Ferenc Kossuth (1841–1914), Hungarian civil engineer and politician
- Lajos Kossuth (1802–1894), Hungarian lawyer, journalist, politician and Governor-President of Hungary in 1849
- György Kossuth (1781–1849), Hungarian nobleman and agronomist
See also
- Joseph Kosuth (born 1945), American conceptual artist
References
- ↑ Krajčovič, Rudolf (2010). "Z lexiky stredovekej slovenčiny s výkladmi názvov obcí a miest (24)" (PDF). Kultúra slova (in Slovak). Martin: Vydavateľstvo Matice slovenskej (6): 343.
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