амант

Chuvash

Etymology

Causative form of Chuvash аман (aman, “to suffer, to be crippled, to be maimed”), from Proto-Turkic *emge- (“to suffer”). Related to амак (amak, “illness”).

Verb

амант • (amant)

to maim, to cripple, to mutilate

References

“амант”, in Электронлă сăмахсар‎^[1] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.
Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “амант”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 26