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Kossuth (surname)

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Kossuth (Kosuth, Košút) is a surname. The word is of Slavic origin - 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).

Notable people with the surname include:

  • Ferenc Kossuth (1841–1914), Hungarian civil engineer and politician
  • Lajos Kossuth (1802–1894), Hungarian lawyer, journalist, politician and Governor-President of Hungary in 1849
  • 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

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