чувто

Erzya

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *šuvtə, from Proto-Finno-Permic *šukta (“tree species”). Cognate with Moksha шуфта (šufta), Finnish huhta and Estonian uht. The Finno-Volgaic word was probably borrowed from Proto-Iranian [Term?]; compare Persian (sôxtan, “to burn”).

More

Nicolaes Witsen in his work Noord en оost Tartarye notes an archaic word pu meaning “male genitalia”, so *šuvtə possibly replaced the hypothetical Proto-Mordvinic *pu (“tree”) due to the new, offensive meaning of the native word.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡ɕuvto/
Rhymes: -uvto
Hyphenation: чув‧то

Noun

чувто • (čuvto)

tree
- 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 21:
  Isťa eŕva paro tšuvto paro raštamotgak kandy, i beŕan tšuvto beŕan raštamot kandy.
  Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.

Declension

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Related terms

чувтомомс (čuvtomoms)
чувтонь (čuvtoń)

References

V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, →ISBN
Entry #1623 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

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