Chuvash edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sarïk (sheep).[1][2]

Cognate with Bashkir һарыҡ (harıq) and Tatar сарык (sarıq).

Noun edit

сурӑх (surăh) (plural сурӑхсем) 

  1. sheep

Descendants edit

  • Eastern Mari: шорык (šoryk, sheep)
  • Western Mari: шарык (šaryk, sheep)

References edit

  1. ^ Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “сурӑх”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, pages 66-67
  2. ^ Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “сурӑх”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 197
  • Räsänen, Martti (1920) Die Tschuwassischen Lehnwörter im Tscheremissischen [Chuvash loan words in Mari], Helsinki: Société Finno-Ougrienne, page 213

Further reading edit

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