Where does “צאַריצע” come from?
צאַריצע (Yiddish) comes from Russian цари́ца, from Russian царь, from Old East Slavic цьсарь, from Old East Slavic цѣсарь, from Proto-Slavic cěsařь, from Proto-Germanic kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar, from Latin caesaries — hair.
צאַריצע (Yiddish): tsarina
Ancestry of “צאַריצע”, step by step