чʼувай

Itelmen

Etymology

From чʼучʼу (čʼučʼu, “chinook salmon”) + -ай (-aj, augmentative suffix). Ultimately from Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan *æwæc(u) (“salmon”). Compare also Chukchi эвэч (eweč).

Noun

чʼувай (čʼuvaj) (plural чʼуʔн)

1. chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

References

• Volodin, Aleksandr P. (1989) Cловарь ительменско-русский и русско-ительменский [Itelmen-Russian and Russian-Itelmen Dictionary], Leningrad: Prosveshenie, →ISBN, page 107.

• M. Dürr, M. Risler, D. Kester, M. Krauss, A. Volodin, E. Kasten, K. Khaloymova, J. Bobalik, Ch. Ono (2021). Полный ительменско-русский словарь