шӑна

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sana"

Chuvash

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *siŋek (“fly”) through a variant *siŋeg ~ *sïŋag.[1][2][3]

Cognate with Turkish sinek and Tuvan сээк (seek). Compare also Hungarian szúnyog, a Bulgar borrowing.[4]

Noun

шӑна • (šăna) (plural шӑнасем) 

  1. fly (insect)

References
  1. Agyágasi, Klára (2019) Chuvash Historical Phonetics (Turcologica; 117), Wiesbaden: Harrssowitz, page 78
  2. Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “шӑна”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 444
  3. Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “шӑна”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 334
  4. Róna-Tas, András, Berta, Árpád, Károly, László (2011) West Old Turkic: Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian (Turcologica; 84), volume II, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pages 822-825

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