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чова

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Erzya

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Etymology

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From Proto-Mordvinic *čəva~*šəva, inherited from Proto-Finno-Ugric *čupa (“lean, thin”). Cognate with Moksha шуваня (šuvanä), Finnish hupa, huvi, Estonian and Veps huba, Hungarian sovány.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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чова • (čova)

  1. thin
    Synonym: човине (čovine)

Declension

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References

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  • B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “чова”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
  • Entry #119 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
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