пыйтӑ

Chuvash

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bït.[1][2]

Cognate with Khalaj bit, Turkish bit, Uzbek bit, Bashkir бет (bet) and Yakut быт (bıt).

Noun

пыйтӑ • (pyjt̬ă) (plural пыйтӑсем) 

  1. louse
  2. aphid

References
  1. Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “пыйтӑ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume I, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 463
  2. Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “пыйтӑ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 172

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