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Chuvash
Etymology 1
From Persian پوست (“skin, hide, pelt”). Compare Turkish post.
Noun
пус • (pus)
- kopek
Etymology 2
Verb
пус • (pus)
- to slaughter
Etymology 3
From Proto-Turkic *bas-. Cognate with Turkish bas-, Kazakh басу (basu), Yakut баттаа (battaa), etc.
Verb
пус • (pus)
- to push, to press
- to tread on, step on
- to suppress, to stifle, to smother
- to oppress
- to cover
- to incubate, to hatch (an egg) (of birds)
- (impersonal, figurative) to overcome, to overpower
- мана ыйхă пусать ― mana yjhă pus̬atʹ ― I was overpowered by sleep
- to enter into a certain age
- to dig, to dig up, to loosen up (the soil)
Further reading
- “пус”, in Электронлă сăмахсар (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.
Khakas
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *būŕ.
Noun
пус • (pus)
- ice
Declension
Northern Altai
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *būŕ. Cognate to Khakas пус (pus), Shor мус (mus), Chulym пус (pus), Western Yugur pïz, Yakut муус (muus), Dolgan буус (buus), etc.
Noun
пус • (pus)
- ice
References
- N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “пус”, in Severnyje dialekty Altajskovo (Ojrotskovo Jazyka- Dialekt kumandincev(Kumandin Kiži), Moskva: glavnaja redakcija vostočnoja literatury, →ISBN
- N. A. Baskakov, editor (1985), “пус”, in Severnyje Dialekty Altajskovo( Ojrotskovo) Jazyka- Dialekt Lebedinskix Tatar-čalkancev(kuu-kiži), Moskva: glavnaja redakcija vostočnoj literatury, →ISBN