hetman

The English word “hetman” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

A Cossack headman or general.
Title used by the second-highest military commander in Poland and Lithuania (15th to 18th century).

Etymology

From Polish hetman, probably from Middle High German houbetman, heuptman (“commander”), from Old High German houbitman, from Proto-West Germanic *haubidamann. Compare modern German Hauptmann (“captain”), Haupt, Mann. The Polish e in hetman attests to a borrowing from an East Central German dialect, in which Middle High German -öu- gives -ē-. Doublet of head man.

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