чик

Chuvash

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *dik- (“vertical; to to plant vertically”).[1][2] Compare Azerbaijani dikmək (“to bury”) dik (“upright, vertical”), tikmək (“to sew”); Turkish dikmek (“to sew”), Kumyk тикмек (tikmek, “to sew; to build”) Kazakh тігу (tıgu).

Verb

чик • (čik)

  1. to stick (in, into)
  2. to prick, to sting
  3. to stab
  4. to pin, to fasten
  5. to put (in)
  6. (colloquial) to put, to place
  7. (colloquial) to bury, to dig (into)
  8. to dip, to plunge
  9. to lower (one's eyes, gaze, etc.) (so as not to look at someone)

References
  1. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dik-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “чик”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 325
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