шӑна
See also: Appendix:Variations of "sana"
Chuvash
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *siŋek (“fly”) through a variant *siŋeg ~ *sïŋag.[1][2][3]
Cognate with Turkish sinek and Tuvan сээк (seek). Compare also Hungarian szúnyog, a Bulgar borrowing.[4]
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]шӑна • (šăna) (plural шӑнасем)
References
[edit]- ^ Agyágasi, Klára (2019) Chuvash Historical Phonetics (Turcologica; 117), Wiesbaden: Harrssowitz, page 78
- ^ Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “шӑна”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 444
- ^ Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “шӑна”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 334
- ^ Róna-Tas, András, Berta, Árpád, Károly, László (2011) West Old Turkic: Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian (Turcologica; 84), volume II, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pages 822-825