Talk:Kovač

Origin
It would be useful to note whether the name Kovacs in Hungarian comes from Kovač, and if there's any relation to ethnicity with the bearers of the name. --Joy &#91;shallot&#93;   28 June 2005 21:52 (UTC)
 * The Hungarian noun "kovács" is an early (as early as 10th century AD) loan word from the Slavic dialects spoken in the Carpathian basin, and it was only later that the use of surnames emerged, thus the surname Kovács doesn't not indicate Slavic origin of its bearer.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.2.136.48 (talk) 23:18, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

In my opinion, it is the connection of two words: Slavic kov mening metal, and Hungarian ács or áč meaning carpenter. Lester Kovac (talk) 16:21, 13 January 2009 (UTC)


 * You are wrong. Suffix -ač is a common grammatical morpheme in (south & west) Slavic languages and is similar to -er in English and German language. To name just a few Croatian/Serbian nouns: kovač (smith), kopač (digger), orač (plowman), bacač (thrower), jahač (rider), trkač (runner), pjevač (singer), brijač (barber), etc. Kovač in Croatia is exactly like Smith in England or Schmidt in Germany. Krizanic (talk) 19:23, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Rename
This page should be renamed to Kovacs or Kovács. As far, as i see, this is a hungarian name (228.000 vs others). And others are mainly hungarian minorities. --Slovan 9 October 2006 09:54 (UTC)


 * You probably want to propose a merger of this article and Kovacs. See WP:MM. -- JHunterJ 11:15, 9 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I strongly oppose merging or renaming. Kovač is a clear Slavic variant of the surname and this article should speak about it. The Kovacs article speak about Hungarian one (no matter that Hungarian name is in fact Slavic too, but it is better to have two separate articles because Kovač and Kovacs are indeed separate words). PANONIAN   (talk)  12:47, 9 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, there should be a better reason to merge than has been given. We certainly have separate pages for some Scottish and Irish versions of the same (Irish) name. If the pages link to each other, the reader is helped. Charles Matthews 14:55, 9 October 2006 (UTC)