Etymology

Sutskever

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Today it means: A surname from Yiddish Full definition →

Yiddish סוצקעווער ← Belarusian Су́цькава ← Polish Sućkowo
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The story

  1. Russian · derived fromСу́тьково
  2. Polish · derived fromSućkowo
  3. Belarusian · derived fromСу́цькава
  4. Yiddish · borrowed fromסוצקעווער
  5. English todaySutskever

Borrowed from Yiddish סוצקעווער (sutskever), from variously Belarusian Су́цькава (Súcʹkava), Polish Sućkowo, Russian Су́тьково (Sútʹkovo) etc. + ־ער (-er), all referring to Sutkovo (“Суцькава”), a village in what is now the Grodno/Hrodna Region of Belarus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.