Kossuth (surname)

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). Martin: Vydavateľstvo Matice slovenskej (6): 343.

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[1] 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.