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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

So are Jews today with the surname Kagan descended from the Khazars, and the rest from the ancient Israelites?


54 posted on 12/11/2007 9:57:19 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus; wideawake
So are Jews today with the surname Kagan descended from the Khazars, and the rest from the ancient Israelites?

Probably not. I would suspect that the Jewish surname Kagan is related to the Kohanim-group names (Cohen, Kahn, Kohn, Kahane, etc.) Linguistically, it is possibly for a velar fricative (i.e. h) to become a velar stop (i.e. g), so this phonemic change probably what accounts for the name Kagan.

59 posted on 12/11/2007 10:05:55 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Conservatives - Freedom WITH responsibility; Libertarians - Freedom FROM responsibility)
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To: Verginius Rufus
So are Jews today with the surname Kagan descended from the Khazars, and the rest from the ancient Israelites?

No. Kagan is the Russian pronunciation of the Hebrew word Cohen (priest). Russians always turn an "h" into a "g." It is also the Russian pronunciation of the Turkic word Khan. The Khazar word Kagan is the same as Khan, as in Ghengis Khan.

The Hebrew word Cohen, the Turkic word Khan and the Hawaiian word Kahuna probably all come from the same prehistoric root, along with the English word King.

67 posted on 12/11/2007 10:10:16 AM PST by Inyokern
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