Chuvash edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from a neighbouring Kipchak language, ultimately from Common Turkic *bākačuk (ankle).[1][2]

Cognate with Bashkir бәкәлсәй (bəkəlsəy), Kazakh бақалшақ (baqalşaq), Kyrgyz багалчак (bagalcak) and Tatar бәкәл (bäkäl).

Noun edit

пакӑлчак (pak̬ălč̬ak) (plural пакӑлчаксем) 

  1. (anatomy) ankle

References edit

  1. ^ Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “пакӑлчак”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, pages 379-380
  2. ^ Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “пакӑлчак”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, pages 141-142

Further reading edit

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