алӑк

Chuvash

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ēlᶴik (“threshold; door”).

Noun

алӑк • (alăk) (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural алӑксем) 

1. door
2. gate

References

• Fedotov, M. R. (1996), “алӑк”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume I, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, pages 108-109
• Jegorov, V. G. (1964), “алӑк”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 49

Further reading

• “алӑк”, in Электронлӑ сӑмахсар [Elektronlă s̬ămahsar]‎^[1] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.