Problem:IOL/2004/i5/en
IOL 2004 Problem #5 Chuvash
The table below contains Chuvash verbs (in Latin transliteration) and their English translations. Some of the data has been left out.
aman | to be crippled | amant | to cripple |
aptra | to suffer | to torment | |
avăn | to be flexible | av | to bend |
çĕt | to get lost | çĕter | to lose |
çit | to reach | to lead | |
čühen | čühe | ||
hupăn | |||
hurăn | to lie (e.g. on the table) | hur | to lay (e.g. something on the table) |
kaç | to move (e.g. from one flat to another) | to transport | |
kăvakar | to become blue | kăvakart | to make blue |
kuç | to migrate | kuçar | to resettle |
puçtarăn | to get together | puçtar | to gather |
taptan | to be trampled | tapta | to trample down |
tupăn | to be found | tup | to find |
uçăn | to be revealed | uç | to reveal |
ük | üker | to drop | |
vacka | to be in a hurry | vackat | to precipitate |
varalan | to be smirched | varala | to besmirch |
vĕre | to be boiling | vĕret | to boil (e.g. water) |
vĕren | to learn | verent | to teach |
vitĕn | to be covered | vit | to cover |
to enter | kĕrt | ||
to hide oneself | pytar | to hide (something) |
(a) Fill in the gaps. If in some cases you cannot find a Chuvash verb with certainty, indicate it. Explain your solution.
⚠ ă is pronounced as a short a, ĕ is pronounced as a short e, ü is pronounced similarly to English ew as in stew, ç is pronounced similarly to English c as in cereal, č is pronounced similarly to English ch as in church. Chuvash is a Turkic language. It is spoken by some 1.5 million people in Chuvashia and some other regions of Russian Federation.
—Boris L. Iomdin