ҫӗршыв

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Chuvash

Etymology

Normalized form of the compound ҫӗр (śĕr, “ground, country, the Earth”) + шыв (šyv, “water, river”). From Proto-Turkic *yẹr (“ground, the Earth”) and *sub (“water”) respectively. Compare similar compoundizations in other Turkic languages; Old Uyghur 𐽶𐽶𐽾𐽻𐽳𐽱 (Yersïv, “God”) Kyrgyz жер–суу (jer–suu, “the Earth”), Kazakh жер–су (jer–su), Uzbek er-su et cetera.

Noun

ҫӗршыв • (śĕrš̬yv) (plural ҫӗршывсем) 

  1. country
  2. land

Further reading

  • “ҫӗршыв”, in Электронлă сăмахсар‎ (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.
  • Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “ҫӗршыв”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 211
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