Kossuth (surname)
Appearance
Kossuth (Kossut, Kosuth, Košút, etc.) are surnames of Slavic origin. the word literally means 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, a somersault or a bossy person (dialect).[1]
The surnames may refer to:
- Ferenc Kossuth (1841–1914), Hungarian civil engineer and politician
- Lajos Kossuth (1802–1894), Hungarian lawyer, journalist, politician and Governor-President of Hungary in 1849
- Małgorzata Kossut, Polish neuroscientist
- Joseph Kosuth (born 1945), American conceptual artist
- Juraj Košút (1776–1849), Slovak nobleman from the Kingdom of Hungary, a lawyer and a supporter of the Slovak national movement
- Marek Košút, Slovak football striker
- Tomáš Košút (born 1990), Slovak football defender
References
- ^ Krajčovič, Rudolf (2010). "Z lexiky stredovekej slovenčiny s výkladmi názvov obcí a miest (24)" (PDF). Kultúra slova (in Slovak) (6). Martin: Vydavateľstvo Matice slovenskej: 343.