нӑхта

Chuvash

Etymology

Borrowed from Tatar нукта (nuqta),[1][2] ultimately from Middle Mongol ᠨᠣᠭᠲᠤ (noɣtu, “halter”).[3][4] Compare Mongolian ногт (nogt).[5]

Noun

нӑхта • (năhta) (plural нӑхтасем) 

  1. halter

References
  1. Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “нӑхта”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume I, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 372
  2. Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “нӑхта”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 138
  3. Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation)‎, Utrecht: LOT, page 461
  4. Sanžejev, G. D., Orlovskaja, M. N., Ševernina, Z. V. (2016) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 202
  5. Lessing, Ferdinand (1960), Mongolian-English Dictionary, London: University of California Press, page 588

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