шыв

Chuvash

Alternative forms
  • шывӑ (šyvă)
  • шӑв (šăv)
  • шу (šu)
  • шӗв (šĕv)

Etymology

Inherited from Bulgar شو (şıv) itself inherited from Proto-Turkic *sïb ~ *sub.[1][2]

Cognate with Khalaj suv, Turkish su, Uzbek suv, Bashkir һыу (hıw) and Yakut уу (uu).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʂɯw/

Noun

шыв • (šyv)

  1. water

References
  1. Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “шыв”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, pages 465-466
  2. Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “шыв”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 340
  • Иван Андреевич Андреев, Раиса Ивановна Гурьева, Лидия Николаевна Кузьмина, 'Чувашский язык 6 класс.' (1998)

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