вӑрҫӑ

Chuvash

Etymology

From вӑр (văr, “to hit”) +‎ -ӑҫ (-ăś). Cognate with Karakhanid اُرُش (ʾrš /⁠uruš⁠/, “quarrel, battle”).

Verb

вӑрҫӑ • (vărś̬ă)

1. war, fight, battle, quarrel

References

• Fedotov, M. R. (1996), “вӑрҫӑ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume I, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 111
• Jegorov, V. G. (1964), “вӑрҫӑ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 50

Further reading

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