какай

Chuvash

Etymology

Borrowed from Tatar кәкәй (käkäy, “meat”) ultimately from Middle Mongol ᠭᠠᠬᠠᠢ (ɣaqai, “pig”).[1][2] According to Yegorov, it originally meant pork then later expanded into meat in general.

Noun

какай • (kak̬aj) (plural какайсем) 

  1. meat

Derived terms

References
  1. Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “какай”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume I, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 213
  2. Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “какай”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 85

Further reading
  • “какай”, in Электронлă сăмахсар‎ (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.

Russian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈkakəj]

Verb

ка́кай • (kákaj)

  1. second-person singular imperative imperfective of ка́кать (kákatʹ)
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