Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "Soviet World War Two Swords? The Cossack M1927 Shashka" video.

Cossacks picked shashka as their weapon of choice after Russian colonial wars in Caucasus, thus the origin of the word itself is not Russian, it comes from Adyghe language.
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@xochiltepetzalailhuicamina2322 I'm just reciting Russian Wiki article on it, but yes, it's true, that Russian has many deep-rooted words of Turkic and Persian origin, like "сарафан" ("a sarafan", I type of traditional Russian female dress) comes from Persian "saref". So maybe it got to Adyghe first and then to Russian.
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Sometimes they are called sub-ethnic group. My wife's relatives on her mothers's side supposedly were Cossack, but after Stalin's rule her parents were... let's say "transferred" to the Far East of Russia and only one family of their relatives was left in Samara. Besides historically not all Cossack were the same, the one in current Ukraine were pretty organised, while those living on Southern and Eastern outskirts and steppes outside of Moscovia were gangs of all possible kinds of people - various ethnicities and various reasons for leaving settled territories - escaped prisoners, bandits, those looking for land and freedom (running away from serfdom). As one of tsars wrote to a khan about them: "our and your Cossacks" ("наши и ваши казаки").
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@bobhill3941 Yeah, a lot of people in the Far East of Russia speak with characteristic Ukrainian accent, some say they also got a different mentality from typical Russians - more rebellious and stubborn. My wife spent there one year as a kid with her grandparents in a small town near Vladivostok and on return scared her parents with the newly acquired pronunciation of "gHe" instead of standard Russian "g". 🤣
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