чувто

Erzya

Etymology

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

Nicolaes Witsen in his work Noord en оost Tartarye notes an archaic word pu meaning “male genitalia”, so Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) possibly replaced the hypothetical Proto-Mordvinic *pu- due to the new, offensive meaning of the native word.

Noun

чувто • (čuvto)

tree

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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