чова

Erzya

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *čupa (“lean, thin”). Cognate with Moksha шуваня (šuvańa), Finnish hupa, huvi, Estonian huba, Hungarian sovány.

Adjective

чова • (čova)

  1. thin

References
  • B. A. Serebrennikov; R. N. Buzakova; M. V. Mosin (1993), “чова”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
  • Entry #119 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
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