көпшә

Tatar

Etymology

Doublet of Tatar көпчәк (köpçäk, “nave, wheel hub”), borrowed from Volga Bulgar. Cognate with Chuvash кӗпҫе (kĕpśe), Bashkir көпшә (köpşə). Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *küpček.[1]

Cognate with also Kazakh күпшек (küpşek), Kyrgyz күпчөк (küpcök).

Noun

көпшә • (köpşä)

  1. tube, tubular trunk

References

  1. ^ A. Róna-tas, “Some Volga Bulgarian Words in the Volga Kipchak Languages”, page 139.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.