Chuvash edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *titre- (to quiver).[1][2]

Cognate with Turkish titremek, Uyghur [script needed] (titrimek), Kazakh тітірәу (tıtıräu) and Yakut титирээ (titiree).

Verb edit

чӗтре (čĕtre)

  1. (intransitive) to shake, tremble, quiver, shake

References edit

  1. ^ Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “чӗтре”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 417
  2. ^ Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “чӗтре”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 325

Further reading edit

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