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[Surname] Re: Korcsak
I believe the word korcs is unrelated - Hungarian surnames, unlike those of other countries, very rarely have negative meanings. Of course I'm not a linguist, but I could see Korcsák coming from the Czech Korczak; the Czech "cz" and the Hungarian "cs" indicate the same sound AFAIK.

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