palach

[Lewis B. Sckolnick]

  Palach is a Turkic name. We see it again in another Turkic language 
Hebrew as Pal to execute.
I am not talking about the Czech or Polish language.
In Polish Palec can be either toe or thumb but isin't all of this a 
little bit off topic?
When we jump into the realm of assumption then we are lost when it comes 
to translation.

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On 12/20/2010 10:56 AM, David Powelstock wrote:
> [marginal correction] The Czech surname Palach is unrelated the Russian (or
> Turkish) *palach*. First, the final consonant of the Czech surname is not
> <ch>  (as in cheese) but<kh>  ('x' in Cyrillic). The noun *palach
> *('executioner')
> is not a Czech word, to the best of my knowledge; even if it were, it would
> be spelled differently. The surname Palach is probably a variant of Paluch,
> from the Polish for big toe or short finger (disclaimer: I'm not a
> Polonist!), perhaps used as a figurative nickname for a small person (cf.
> Tom Thumb).
>
> Cheers,
> David P
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Lewis B. Sckolnick
> <info at runanywhere.com>wrote:
>
>>   Palach is an executioner or hangman and someone who most likely has a
>> certain amount of judicial discretion. The word is from the Turkish. Palach
>> is taken as a Jewish name in the Turkish world, thus Palache, Palaggi,
>> Falaji, Palyaj related to Hazzan and there is of course Jan Palach from
>> Prague. In this instant case context must be allowed to play a large role
>> even if the resulting translation might not be as genteel as some might want
>> it to be.
>>
>> Lewis B. Sckolnick
>> The Ledge House
>>
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Leverett, MA 01054-9726
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