ковбаса

Etymology
From Middle and Old Ukrainian,. Slavic cognates point to several reconstructed forms, indicating that this is a very early borrowing, with no clear antecedent. It is considered most likely to originate from for "grilled cutlet," literally "pressed on ashes," from  +  (modern 🇨🇬).

Other possible connections include 🇨🇬 or, cognate of 🇨🇬, Russian and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , , , or , , cognate of 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , , 🇨🇬.

There is also the unlikely suggestion of a connection to ; compare 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬,.

Speculations of an origin in 🇨🇬 or 🇨🇬 are considered tenuous in the light of semasiology, chronology, and geography.

Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and dialectal, the last two from Polish, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and archaic , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, rarely , and archaically , 🇨🇬, , , and dialectal , 🇨🇬 and dialectal , archaic 🇨🇬, rarely , 🇨🇬, , and dialectal , , and , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and dialectal , and , 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) sausage