Editing Cossacks (section)

== Etymology ==
[[File:Cossack Mamay 1890.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|Cossack [[bandurist]], 1890|alt=]]

[[Max Vasmer]]'s etymological dictionary traces the name to the Tatar [[Turkic languages|Turkic]] word {{lang|sla|kazak}}, {{lang|sla-Latn|kozak}}, in which ''cosac'' meant 'free man' but also 'conqueror'.<ref>For a detailed analysis, see {{cite journal |author-link=Omeljan Pritsak |first1=Omeljan |last1=Pritsak |title=The Turkic Etymology of the Word Qazaq 'Cossack' |journal=Harvard Ukrainian Studies |volume=28 |issue=1–4 |date=2006{{–}}2007 |pages=237–XII}}</ref> The ethnonym ''[[Kazakhs|Kazakh]]'' is from the same [[Turkic languages|Turkic]] root.<ref name=etymo>{{cite encyclopedia |entry-url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Cossack |entry=Cossack |title=Online Etymology Dictionary |access-date=2015-10-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003175721/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Cossack |archive-date=2015-10-03 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="britannica">{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cossack |title=Cossack |encyclopedia=Britannica |date=2015-05-28 |access-date=2015-10-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924190103/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cossack |archive-date=2015-09-24 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=Iaroslav |last1=Lebedynsky |title=Histoire des Cosaques |trans-title=History of the Cossacks |location=Lyon, FR |publisher=Terre Noire |year=1995 |page=38 |language=fr}}</ref>

In written sources, the name is first [[Attested language|attested]] in the ''[[Codex Cumanicus]]'' from the 13th&nbsp;century.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkPath=pages\C\O\Cossacks.htm |article=Cossacks |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Ukraine |access-date=13 August 2012 |title=Archived copy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805142514/http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CC%5CO%5CCossacks.htm |archive-date=5 August 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Max Vasmer |author-link=Max Vasmer |url=http://vasmer.narod.ru/p242.htm |script-title=ru:Этимологический словарь Фасмера: казаґк |trans-title=Etymological Dictionary: Kazagk |language=ru |work=narod.ru |page=242 |access-date=23 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721190849/http://vasmer.narod.ru/p242.htm |archive-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> In [[English language|English]], ''Cossack'' is first attested in 1590.<ref name=etymo/>