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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
The Chuvash language contains many words lacking a clear etymological relation to the Turco-Tatar languages (of which the Chuvash is a member) as well as to the neighbouring Finno-Ugrian languages. One of these odd expressions is the word for “knife”, zězě, which, according to Ashmarin's Thesaurus Linguæ Tschuvaschorum (vol. xiii, pp. 109–110), has no derivations in this language. Among the examples of the use shown there, one is of some interest for students of folklore and may therefore be inserted here in translation: “Having buried the maid they put a knife at her head, saying: Cut thou with this knife the bread yonder; and they put a needle and thread, saying: Sew the chemises with them.”
page 52 note 1 Reviewed in the Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 1939, col. 538–542.
page 53 note 1 Many notices about such details are scattered in the volumes of the Hungarian Oriental Review (Keleti Szemle).
page 53 note 2 tam + aq “the roof of the mouth” < tam “roof” + diminutive suffix aq; Zajączkowski, v. Ananjasz, Leg suffixes nominaux et verbaux dans la langue des karaïms occidentaux, Kraków, 1932, p. 17Google Scholar.