ӳт

Chuvash

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *et (“meat”).

The archaic sense "meat" is preserved in the Viryal dialect as set phrases ӳт шӳрпи (üt šürp̬i, “meat broth”) and ӳте кӗр (üt̬e k̬ĕr, “to break fast”) (lit. "to enter into meat").

Noun

ӳт • (üt)

body, skin
corpse
(archaic, obsolete), (survives in Viryal dialect) meat, flesh of animals

Derived terms

тачка ӳт (tačka üt, “soft flesh, tissue”) (cf. тачка (tačka, “hare”))
ӳт илтерекен курăк (üt̬ ilt̬erek̬en k̬urăk, “celandine, pilewort, fireweed; aloe”) (lit. "flesh-grasper grass", cf. ил (il, “to take”), курӑк (kurăk, “grass”))
ӳчĕ ҫук (üčĕ śuk, “skinny, very thin”) (cf. ҫук (śuk, “no, not existent”))
Хĕрлĕ Ӳтли (Hĕrlĕ Ütli, “Amerindian, Native American”) (cf. хӗрлӗ (hĕrlĕ, “red, scarlet”), Turkish Kızılderili (“Native American (lit. 'Red-skinned ones')”)
Хура Ӳтли (Hura Ütli, “Negro, Black”) (cf. хура (hura, “black, dark”))
Шурă Ӳтли (Šură Ütli, “White, European”) (cf. шурӑ (šură, “white, bright”))

References

“ӳт”, in Электронлă сăмахсар‎^[1] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.
Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “ӳт”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 282