 A similar word meaning chief of the shephards was borrowed from Paleo-Balkanic, Romanian, or Slavic  languages.The sounding of the two words became the same as the last "a" was dropped from the personal name.Hungarian authors claim that most Hungarian place names, for example Bácsa in Transdanubia, Hungary, weren't derivation from the Slavic-Vlach expression but from the personal name with a different language.