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Chuvash
Etymology
Borrowed from Tatar кәкәй (käkäy, “meat”) ultimately from Middle Mongol ᠭᠠᠬᠠᠢ (ɣaqai, “pig”).[1][2] According to Yegorov, it originally meant pork then later expanded into meat in general.
Noun
какай • (kak̬aj) (plural какайсем)
- meat
Derived terms
References
- ^ Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “какай”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume I, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 213
- ^ Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “какай”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 85
Further reading
- “какай”, in Электронлă сăмахсар (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.
Russian
Pronunciation
Verb
ка́кай • (kákaj)
- second-person singular imperative imperfective of ка́кать (kákatʹ)