пуҫ

Chuvash

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Turkic *baĺč

Volga Bulgar بَلج (balj)

Chuvash пуҫ

Inherited from Volga Bulgar بَلج (balj), from Proto-Turkic *baĺč.

Noun

пуҫ • (puś)

1. (anatomy) head
2. senior, chef, leader
3. person
4. cob
5. source
6. end, edge, extremity
7. start

Etymology 2

Uncertain, likely a cognate to Proto-Turkic *ban- (“to dip”), but the nature of the relationship is unclear, perhaps derivations from the same root (which has been suggested to be *bā- (“to tie”)).

Verb

пуҫ • (puś)

1. (transitive) to dip

References

• Fedotov, M. R. (1996), “пуҫ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume I, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, pages 452-453
• Jegorov, V. G. (1964), “пуҫ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 168

Further reading

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