ҫумӑр

Chuvash

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yagmur (“rain”);[1][2] equivalent to ҫу (śu, “to rain”) + -мӑр (-măr).[3]

Cognate with Turkish yağmur, Uzbek yomgʻir, Bashkir ямғыр (yamğır) and Yakut самыыр (samıır).

Noun

ҫумӑр • (śumăr)

  1. rain

References
  1. Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “ҫумӑр”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 135
  2. Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “ҫумӑр”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 218
  3. Erdal, Marcel (1991) Old Turkic Word Formation‎, volume I, Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 389

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