köken: Uncertain. Originally from southern Italy, compare Neapolitan cafone, Sicilian cafuni, possibly of Oscan origin. Another theory traces it to the phrase c'a fune (literally “with a rope”), used to mock those from the countryside who would tie themselves to each other with rope to not get lost.
köken: Recorded in Astrakhan and among Greben Cossacks. Discernably, a transferred meaning of Kalmyk лох (lox, “aloe vera”), which relates through the Kalmyk home in Dzungaria to Chinese 蘆薈／芦荟 (lúhuì, “aloe vera”), see it for more.
köken: A form of the name Johannes, attested as a first name in 14th century. The same etymology applies to surnames Juntti, Junttinen, Junttila, Juntunen, Erkinjuntti etc.
köken: From rūs (“the country”) + -cola (“cultivator, dweller”). The latter comes from colō (“to till, cultivate”) and the agent-noun-forming suffix -a.
köken: Etymology tree Esperanto kamparano Latin -āceus Latin -aceum Italian -accioder. Esperanto -aĉ- Esperanto kamparanaĉo From kamparano (“rural person”) + -aĉ- (“of low quality”).
A schlub, a boorish bumpkin, particularly if not Jewish.
köken: From Polish żłób (“manger, trough; furrow, large groove in the soil”). Originated in klezmer musician cant (Klezmer-loshn). The nature of the semantic shift from "manger, crib" to "boorish goy" remains unclear. In any case, by the year 1869, it had become common enough to be included in a Russian-Yiddish dictionary published in Zhytomyr. Jewish immigrants brought the word to the United States,…