Anonymous ID: b1178b July 24, 2024, 9:55 a.m. No.21283425   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>21283383

>Russia had czars

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/43509/czar-vs-tsar-origins-and-pronunciation#43510

 

Merriam-Webster's Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary (2003) lists czar as the primary spelling in U.S. English, and tsar as a variant spelling. Webster's Word Histories (1989), in a fairly detailed discussion of the two spellings, attributes the spelling czar to a sixteenth-century Austrian baron:

 

czar Czar, or tsar, is our English word for a pre-Soviet Russian emperor. Tsar is a straightforward borrowing from the Russian, but the form of czar is strange. It looks rather like a Polish word, and in fact there is a Polish czar, but it is pronounced like English char and means 'charm' or 'spell'. The Polish equivalent of Russian tsar is spelled car—Polish c is pronounced ts. We owe our peculiar spelling of czar to an Austrian diplomatist, Siegmund, Freiherr (Baron) von Herberstein (1486–1566). … Herberstein wrote in Latin, but his spelling of Russian tsar was influenced by his native German. The c in Herberstein's czar may have come from Polish, but his z was surely added as a pronunciation indicator—z in German, like c in Polish, is pronounced ts. The English word czar first appeared in a 1555 translation of Herberstein's work [Rerum moscovitarum commentarii, or Commentaries on Muscovite Matters].

 

The entry for the term in John Ayto, Arcade Dictionary of Word Origins (1990) focuses exclusively on the derivation of the spelling tsar:

 

tsar Caesar was a Roman cognomen (English gets caesarian from it) and from the days of Augustus was used as part of the title of 'emperor.' The Germanic peoples took it over in this sense (it is the source of German kaiser) and passed it on to prehistoric Slavic as tsēsari. This has evolved into Serbo-Croat and Bulgarian tsar and Russian tsar'—source of English tsar.

Anonymous ID: b1178b July 24, 2024, 10:31 a.m. No.21283675   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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