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кӗҫнерникун

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Chuvash

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Etymology

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From Volga Bulgar كجن ارن كون (kiçin erne küwēn, “Thursday”).[1][2] Literally “small week day” in Volga Bulgar. Cognate to Karaim кичиэйнэкүн. Probably the result of a Bulgar-Cuman sprachbund. See also Volga Bulgar حىان كوان (xyân kön, “Wednesday”), a cognate of Karaim къанкүн (kankün, “Wednesday”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [kʲɘɕɲerʲɲiˈɡun]

Noun

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кӗҫнерникун • (kĕśnernik̬un) (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural кӗҫнерникунсем) 

  1. Thursday

References

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  1. ^ Tekin, Talât (1988), Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language]‎[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, pages 46, 154
  2. ^ Erdal, Marcel (1993), Die Sprache der wolgabolgarischen Inschriften (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 123-124

Further reading

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  • “кӗҫнерникун”, in Электронлӑ сӑмахсар [Elektronlă s̬ămahsar]‎[2] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.
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