ҫамрӑк

Chuvash

Etymology

Uncertain. Loaned into Hungarian gyermek (“child”) through Old Bulgar.[1][2] Cognate with Proto-Mongolic *jermegei (“young man”),[1][2] itself probably borrowed from a Turkic source.

A hypothetical Proto-Turkic *yermek ~ *yermük can be reconstructed, however there are seemingly no Common Turkic cognates. Róna-Tas also suggests a connection with Proto-Turkic *yabrïg (“child of an animal”), whence ҫӑвӑр (śăvăr).,[1]

Adjective

ҫамрӑк • (śamrăk)

  1. young
    Synonyms: йӗкӗт (jĕk̬ĕt), кӗҫӗн (kĕś̬ĕn), пӗчӗкле (pĕč̬ĕkle), яш (jaš)
    Antonym: ватӑ (vat̬ă)

References
  1. Róna-Tas, András, Berta, Árpád, Károly, László (2011) West Old Turkic: Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian (Turcologica; 84), volume I, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 385
  2. Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “çамрӑк”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 83

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