zamsz

Etymology
, from, later , from , identical to the animal name ; in this understanding also 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 use the same word for the caprine and for the hide.


 * Note that a lot of false etymologies circulate about this fabric's name:


 * derived from, 🇨🇬, due to the use of fish oil in tanning, allegedly via Arabic dialects, also linking via and  which are completely unrelated to the Turkic word;
 * in German sources, it is often alleged on the basis of the spellings to have come from 🇨🇬; a corrupt version of this story derives the word from 🇨🇬 which is not known in Dutch;
 * the similarity in 🇨🇬 referring to shammy, apart from by, is a coincidence;
 * a rarer, baseless claim derives the word from in Eastern Prussia;
 * some have considered a Slavic origin, though the Slavic words postdate the German attestations and even more so the Romance ones, and Slavic internal derivations, if attempted, are vagary, such as connecting the word with.

Noun

 * 1) suede