чувто
Erzya edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Mordvinic *šuvtə, from Proto-Finno-Permic *šukta (“tree species”). Cognate with Moksha шуфта (šufta), Finnish huhta and Estonian uht. The Finno-Volgaic word was probably borrowed from Proto-Iranian [Term?]; compare Persian سوختن (sôxtan, “to burn”).
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Nicolaes Witsen in his work Noord en оost Tartarye notes an archaic word pu meaning “male genitalia”, so *šuvtə possibly replaced the hypothetical Proto-Mordvinic *pu (“tree”) due to the new, offensive meaning of the native word.
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Noun edit
чувто • (čuvto)
- tree
- 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 21:
- Isťa eŕva paro tšuvto paro raštamotgak kandy, i beŕan tšuvto beŕan raštamot kandy.
- Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
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References edit
- V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, →ISBN
- Entry #1623 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.