Kushnir

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Kushnir (Ukrainian: Кушнір, Belarusian: Кушнір, Russian: Кушни́р, Ку́шнир, Yiddish: קושניר‎) is a Ukrainian and Jewish surname, meaning furrier.^{[citation needed]}

Etymology[]

The root of the name is the old Slavic word for fur, кърьзно, which can be transliterated as "kyrizno" or "kurizno" ("ъ" is the Slavic letter designating an ultra-short vowel, as for instance the "y" in "Katyusha").^{[citation needed]} The Polish word for furrier is Kuśnierz, also used as a surname, with similar words and names found in Serbo-Croatian.^{[citation needed]}

Through the Slavic fur merchants, the word was also adopted into Germanic languages and evolved for instance into the modern German and Swedish words for furrier, Kürschner and körsnär respectively.^{[citation needed]} Yiddish is a language lexically based to a large degree on German, and therefore a Yiddish-speaking Jew living in Ukraine or Poland could relate to the local word for furrier both through the local Slavic language, as through his mother tongue.^{[citation needed]}

Variations[]

There are many variations of the Ukrainian name Kushnir from all over Central Europe. In the west the name starts in Germany as Kuschner and variations of it run through the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary to Ukraine in the east and others. The derivatives may include Kushnirenko, Kushnirchuk, Kushnirovych, Kushnirak, Kushnirov, Kushnariv, Kushnarev, Kushner, Cushner, Kusznir, Kusnir, Kuśnierz, Romanian Cușmir, and others.

Notable people sharing the surname "Kushnir"[]

• Alex Kushnir, Israeli politician
• Alla Kushnir, a Russian–born Israeli chess Woman Grandmaster
• Alla Kushnir, a Ukrainian belly dancer
• Anton Syarhyeyevich Kushnir (born 1984), a Belarusian aerial skier
• Asher Kushnir, Russian lecturer
• David Kushnir (born 1931), Israeli Olympic long-jumper

Notable people sharing variations of the name[]

Kušnier[]

• (1894, Huty – 1944)^[1]

Kušnír[]

• Ondřej Kušnír
• ^[2]

Kusnir[]

• ^[3]

Other forms[]

• Kushner - Ashkenazi Jewish surname
• Kušnirák (Slovak form)

References[]

Surname list

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