сӑмса

Chuvash

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Mongol ᠰᠠᠮᠰᠠ (samsa, “nasal septum”). Jegorov and Fedotov also compare Common Turkic *tumšuk (“nose, beak”), however this is dubious for phonetic reasons. EDAL reconstructs Proto-Turkic *sum-[1], however such a word is not attested in any other Turkic language.

Noun

сӑмса • (săms̬a) (plural сӑмсасем) 

  1. nose
  2. beak
  3. (of animals) snout, mug, muzzle
  4. (colloquial) snot, snivel
  5. (geography) snot, snivel
  6. crust (of bread)

References
  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*sum-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  • Jegorov, V. G. (1964), “сӑмса”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 181
  • Fedotov, M. R. (1996), “сӑмса”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 24
  • Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 399

Further reading
  • “сӑмса”, in Электронлă сăмахсар‎ (in Russian-Chuvash, Chuvash-Russian), 1996.
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