Chuvash

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Turkic *kēče (night), derived from the root *kēč (late).

Cognate with Turkish gece (night), Azerbaijani gecə (night), Turkmen gije (night), Kazakh кеш (keş, evening), Kyrgyz кеч (kec, evening), etc.

Noun

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каҫ (kaś) (plural каҫсем) 

  1. night
  2. evening

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Turkic *keč- (to pass, wade).

Verb

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каҫ (kaś)

  1. (intransitive) to pass
  2. (transitive) to pass
  3. write off to (a debt)

Further reading

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