Talk:rucksack

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Etymology
From the 🇨🇬 composite word Rugzak, made up from the nouns rug (back) and zak (bag)

Both Online Etymology Dictionary and American Heritage Dictionary give the etymology as German not Dutch. Rmhermen 05:53, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Alternate spellings
Is 'rucsac' a valid spelling? 500,000 hits on Google (versus 4.5m for 'rucksack'). I've seen it used in adverts from Tiso.