ҫамрӑк
Chuvash
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Loaned into Hungarian gyermek (“child”) through Old Bulgar.[1][2] Cognate with Proto-Mongolic *jermegei (“young man”),[1][2] itself probably borrowed from a Turkic source.
A hypothetical Proto-Turkic *yermek ~ *yermük can be reconstructed, however there are seemingly no Common Turkic cognates. Róna-Tas also suggests a connection with Proto-Turkic *yabrïg (“child of an animal”), whence ҫӑвӑр (śăvăr).,[1]
Adjective
[edit]ҫамрӑк • (śamrăk)
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Róna-Tas, András, Berta, Árpád, Károly, László (2011) West Old Turkic: Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian (Turcologica; 84), volume I, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 385
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “çамрӑк”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 83