какай
Chuvash
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Tatar кәкәй (käkäy, “meat”) ultimately from Middle Mongol ᠭᠠᠬᠠᠢ (ɣaqai, “pig”).[1][2] According to Yegorov, it originally meant pork then later expanded into meat in general.
Noun
[edit]какай • (kak̬aj) (plural какайсем)
Derived terms
[edit]- аш-какай (aš-kak̬aj)
References
[edit]- ^ Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “какай”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume I, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 213
- ^ Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “какай”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 85
Further reading
[edit]Russian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]ка́кай • (kákaj)
- second-person singular imperative imperfective of ка́кать (kákatʹ)