сӑмса
Chuvash edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle Mongol ᠰᠠᠮᠰᠠ (samsa, “nasal septum”). Jegorov and Fedotov also compare Common Turkic *tumšuk (“nose, beak”), however this is dubious for phonetic reasons. EDAL reconstructs Proto-Turkic *sum-,[1] however such a word is not attested in any other Turkic language.
Noun edit
сӑмса • (săms̬a) (plural сӑмсасем)
- nose
- beak
- (of animals) snout, mug, muzzle
- (colloquial) snot, snivel
- (geography) snot, snivel
- crust (of bread)
References edit
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sum-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “сӑмса”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 181
- Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “сӑмса”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 24
- Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 399