куян

Chuvash

Etymology

Borrowed from Tatar куян (quyan, “hare”) ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kodan (“hare”).[1][2] According to Fedotov, Yegorov and Räsänen, Eastern Mari мераҥ (meraŋ) and Western Mari морен (moren) are compounds and the second part of the word was borrowed from the native variant of the word, *хуран (*huran).[3] See also морен (moren).

Cognate with Uzbek quyon, Bashkir ҡуян (quyan) and Tuvan кодан (kodan).

Noun

куян • (kujan) (plural куянсем) 

  1. hare, rabbit, bunny
    Synonyms: морен (moren), карсак (kars̬ak), мулкач (mulk̬ač), сайкка (sajkka)

References
  1. Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “куян”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume I, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 319
  2. Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “куян”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 122
  3. Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, pages 274-275

Further reading
  • “куян”, in Электронлă сăмахсар‎ (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.

Tatar

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kodan.

Noun

куян • (quyan)

  1. hare
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