тикше

Erzya

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Finno-Permic *teškä (“something protruding: top, beard, head of corn, plant, shrub”), in which case cognate with Finnish tähkä (“ear”), Komi-Permyak тош (toš), Udmurt туш (tuš).

Noun

тикше • (ťikše)

  1. grass

References
  • B. A. Serebrennikov; R. N. Buzakova; M. V. Mosin (1993), “тикше”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
  • Entry #1642 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
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