куҫ

Chuvash

Etymology 1

Ultimately derived from Proto-Turkic *köŕ (“eye”), however the morphology is uncertain, Fedotov proposes both a possible diminutive *köŕč and a third person singular possessive *köŕsi. EDAL's *köŕs is entirely baseless.[1]

Noun

куҫ • (kuś) (plural куҫсем) 

  1. (anatomy) eye

Etymology 2

Inherited from Bulgar كوج (köç-), كوالج (köwelç-),[2] itself inherited from Proto-Turkic *köč- (“to migrate”).

Verb

куҫ • (kuś)

  1. (intransitive) to move
  2. (intransitive) to resettle
  3. (intransitive) to pass, to go over, to progress, to advance
  4. (intransitive) to transform
  5. (intransitive) to enter
  6. (intransitive) to switch
  7. (intransitive) to be passed over, to be transmitted

References
  1. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*göŕ (*gör-s)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. Erdal, Marcel (1993) Die Sprache der wolgabolgarischen Inschriften (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 163
  • Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “куҫ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume I, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, pages 314-315
  • Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “куҫ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 120

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