Chuvash

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tilkü.[1][2]

Cognate with Khalaj tilkü, Turkish tilki, Uzbek tulki, Bashkir төлкө (tölkö) and Tuvan дилги (dilgi).

Noun

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тилӗ (tilĕ) (plural тилӗсем) 

  1. fox

References

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  1. ^ Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “тилӗ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, page 229
  2. ^ Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “тилӗ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 251

Further reading

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  • тилӗ”, in Электронлă сăмахсар[1] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.
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