query on croatian sausage, paviticas-

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>There's a kind of sausage called cevapcici [tSEvaptSitSi], which hails from
>the former Yugoslavia ....

When I first encountered this it was named in Croatian "cevabcici" with
haceks on all of the "c"s. Spelling with "p" appears more common on the Web
today, and the diacritical marks are varied. I believe this is quite
popular in Germany etc. today.

I wonder whether the "cevab-" is cognate with Turkish "kebap"/"kebab" as in
"shishkabob".

-- Doug Wilson