кӑвакал

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Chuvash

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kȫkel (drake), equivalent to кӑвак (kăvak, blue, grey) + -ал (-al).[1][2] Yegorov also suggested it may be from an onomatopoeia ква-ква (kva-kva),[3] however this is considered incorrect by Eren and Fedotov.

Cognate with Turkish gövel (green headed (of ducks)) and Bashkir күгәл (kügəl, drake).

Noun

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кӑвакал (kăvak̬al) (plural кӑвакалсем) 

  1. duck

References

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  1. ^ Eren, Hasan (1982) “Remarks on V. G. Egorov's Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language”, in Studies in Chuvash Etymology I, pages 30-31
  2. ^ Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “кӑвакал”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume I, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 246
  3. ^ Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “кӑвакал”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 96

Further reading

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  • кӑвакал”, in Электронлă сăмахсар[1] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.