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Chuvash

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yāg (oil, butter, fat).

Cognate with Khalaj yâğ, Turkish yağ, Uzbek yoʻg and Yakut сыа (sıa).

Noun

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ҫу or ҫӑв (śu or śăv)

  1. oil, butter, fat
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Etymology 2

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yāy (summer).

Cognate with Azerbaijani yay, Bashkir йәй (yəy) and Yakut сайын (sayın).

Noun

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ҫу or ҫӑв (śu or śăv)

  1. summer
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See also
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Seasons in Chuvash · сезонсем (sezons̬em) (layout · text) · category
ҫур (śur, spring) ҫу (śu), ҫулла (śulla, summer) кӗр (kĕr, autumn) хӗл (hĕl, winter)

Etymology 3

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yū- (to wash).

Cognate with Khalaj yûmaq, Turkish yumak, Uzbek yuvmoq, Bashkir йыуыу (yıwıw) and Yakut сууй (suuy).

Verb

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ҫу or ҫӑв (śu or śăv)

  1. (transitive) to wash

Etymology 4

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yag-.

Cognate with Khalaj yağmaq, Turkish yağmak, Uzbek yogʻmoq, Bashkir яуыу (yawıw) and Tuvan чаар (çaar).

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ҫу (śu)

  1. (intransitive) to rain
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References

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  • Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “ҫу”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, pages 127-129
  • Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “ҫу”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, pages 215-216

Further reading

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  • ҫу”, in Электронлă сăмахсар[1] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.