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Chuvash
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *teŋri ~ *taŋrï (“sky; god”)[1][2] through a variant *tegri ~ *tagrï.[3] Attested in Danube Bulgar as ΤΑΓΓΡΑ (taŋra).[4]
Cognate with Turkish tanrı, Uzbek tangri, Bashkir тәңре (təñre) and Yakut таҥара (tañara).
Noun
турӑ • (tură) (plural турӑсем)
- god, deity
References
- ^ Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “турӑ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, pages 252-253
- ^ Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “турӑ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 259
- ^ Agyágasi, Klára (2019) Chuvash Historical Phonetics (Turcologica; 117), Wiesbaden: Harrssowitz, page 84
- ^ Tekin, Talât (1987) “Tangra”, in Tuna Bulgarları ve Dilleri [Danube Bulgars and Their Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları, page 60
Further reading
- “турӑ”, in Электронлă сăмахсар (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.