Cevapcici, Raznici (1935)

[James A. Landau]

In a message dated 6/17/03 7:45:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Bapopik at AOL.COM
writes:

> AN AMERICAN IMMIGRANT VISITS YUGOSLAVIA AND DISCOVERS HIS OLD COUNTRY
>  by Louis Adamic
>  New York: Harper & Brothers
>  1934
>
>  Pg. 73:  There were pitchers and bottles of wine, cider, and prune brandy;
> loaves of bread, platters of home-cured ham and _klobase_ (smoked
sausages),
> with raw horseradish, and bowls of dried fruit of the previous year.

The OED under "kielbasa" gives the source as "Polish _kielbase_ (a mark
through the l), Russian _kolbasa_ sausage".  Since most Yugoslavs spoke Slavic
languages, is "klobase" simply the Serbian or Croatian or whatever equivalent of
the Russian "kolbasa"?

     - Jim Landau