уйран

Chuvash

Etymology

From Middle Chuvash *yăra(n), from Old Chuvash *ï̄raɣ. Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ayran (“buttermilk, airan”). Cognate with уйӑр (ujăr, “to separate”), Turkish ayran, Bashkir айран (ayran) and Hungarian író.

Noun

уйран • (ujran)

1. buttermilk

Derived terms

• уйран куҫ (ujran k̬uś, “white eyed”) (cf. куҫ (kuś, “eye”))
• уйран-турӑх (ujran-t̬urăh, “sour dairy meals”) (cf. турӑх (turăh, “sour milk”))

References

• Agyágasi, Klára (2019) Chuvash Historical Phonetics (Turcologica; 117), Wiesbaden: Harrssowitz, pages 86, 130
• Róna-Tas, András, Berta, Árpád, Károly, László (2011) West Old Turkic: Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian (Turcologica; 84), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pages 464-470
• “уйран”, in Электронлă сăмахсар‎^[1] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.
• Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “уйран”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 26