Chuvash

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Tatar кәкәй (käkäy, meat) ultimately from Middle Mongol ᠭᠠᠬᠠᠢ (ɣaqai, pig).[1][2] According to Yegorov, it originally meant pork then later expanded into meat in general.

Noun

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какай (kak̬aj) (plural какайсем) 

  1. meat

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “какай”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume I, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 213
  2. ^ Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “какай”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 85

Further reading

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

Russian

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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ка́кай (kákaj)

  1. second-person singular imperative imperfective of ка́кать (kákatʹ)