чик
Chuvash
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *dik- (“vertical; to to plant vertically”).[1][2] Compare Azerbaijani dikmək (“to bury”) dik (“upright, vertical”), tikmək (“to sew”); Turkish dikmek (“to sew”), Kumyk тикмек (tikmek, “to sew; to build”) Kazakh тігу (tıgu).
Verb
[edit]чик • (čik)
- to stick (in, into)
- to prick, to sting
- to stab
- to pin, to fasten
- to put (in)
- (colloquial) to put, to place
- (colloquial) to bury, to dig (into)
- to dip, to plunge
- to lower (one's eyes, gaze, etc.) (so as not to look at someone)
References
[edit]- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dik-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “чик”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 325