сурӑх

Chuvash

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sarïk (“sheep”).[1][2]

Cognate with Bashkir һарыҡ (harıq) and Tatar сарык (sarıq).

Noun

сурӑх • (surăh) (plural сурӑхсем) 

  1. sheep

Descendants
  • → Eastern Mari: шорык (šoryk, “sheep”)
  • → Western Mari: шарык (šaryk, “sheep”)

References
  1. Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “сурӑх”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, pages 66-67
  2. Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “сурӑх”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 197
  • Räsänen, Martti (1920) Die Tschuwassischen Lehnwörter im Tscheremissischen [Chuvash loan words in Mari], Helsinki: Société Finno-Ougrienne, page 213

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