шӑмӑ

See also: шама and Appendix:Variations of "sama"

Chuvash

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *süŋük (“bone”).

Noun

шӑмӑ • (šămă) (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural шӑмӑсем) 

1. (anatomy) bone

References

• Fedotov, M. R. (1996), “шӑмӑ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 443
• Jegorov, V. G. (1964), “шӑмӑ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 333

Further reading

• “шӑмӑ”, in Электронлӑ сӑмахсар [Ɛlektronlă s̬ămaxsar]‎^[1] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.