чуваш

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Bulgarian

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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чу́ваш (čúvaš)

  1. second-person singular present indicative of чу́вам (čúvam)

Russian

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 чуваши on Russian Wikipedia
 чуваши (этноним) on Russian Wikipedia

Etymology

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Attested early 16th century in the obsolete form чюваши m pl (čjuvaši). Borrowed from Turkic whence modern Chuvash чӑваш (čăvaš, Chuvash), Tatar чуаш (çuwaş, Chuvash), and Eastern Mari суас (suas, Tatar). In the 16th and 17th century the Russian term may have referred to a social estate rather than a particular ethnicity. Further etymology uncertain; there are a number of hypotheses.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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чува́ш (čuvášm anim (genitive чува́ша or чуваша́, nominative plural чува́ши or чуваши́, genitive plural чува́шей or чуваше́й, feminine чува́шка)

  1. a Chuvash

Declension

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Further reading

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “чуваш”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Clauson, Gerard (2002) Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics, 2nd edition, London: RoutledgeCurzon, →ISBN, page 23