сычуг

Related to synonymous Ukrainian сичу́г (syčúh), Belarusian сычу́г (syčúh).

Usually considered a Turkic borrowing and compared to Kipchak suzug (“intestines”) (Codex Cumanicus), Chagatai [script needed] (sučuk, “stuffed intestines”), Ottoman Turkish صوجوق (sucuk, “sausage”).^[1][2] On the other hand, Trubačev considers сычуг (syčug) a native formation from сыти́ть (sytítʹ, “to sweeten”), typologically comparing German Lab (“rennet”), Labmagen (“rennet-bag”) : laben (“to refresh with, to enliven by exposing to, to let feast”), Ossetian а́хсӕн (áxsæn, “rennet-bag; ferment (starter) in making cheese”) : а́хсын (áxsyn, “to curdle”), and noting the ability of the abomasum to secrete an enzyme used in cheese-making.^[2]

Compare also Old Armenian շիճուկ (šičuk, “whey”) and dialectal Turkish cücük, cıcuk, cucuk, çuçuk (“ferment (starter) in making curds and cheese”).

• IPA^(key): [sɨˈt͡ɕuk]

сычу́г • (syčúg) m inan (genitive сычуга́, nominative plural сычуги́, genitive plural сычуго́в, relational adjective сычу́жный)

1. (biology, food) abomasum, maw, rennet-bag, the fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant
   • 1913, Максим Горький [Maxim Gorky], “XIII”, in Детство; English translation from Ronald Wilks, transl., My Childhood, 1966:

     Всё в до́ме стро́го дели́лось: оди́н день обе́д гото́вила ба́бушка из прови́зии, ку́пленной на её де́ньги, на друго́й день прови́зию и хлеб покупа́л дед, и всегда́ в его́ дни обе́ды быва́ли ху́же: ба́бушка брала́ хоро́шее мя́со, а он — требуху́, печёнку, лёгкие, сычу́г.

     Vsjo v dóme strógo delílosʹ: odín denʹ obéd gotóvila bábuška iz provízii, kúplennoj na jejó dénʹgi, na drugój denʹ províziju i xleb pokupál ded, i vsegdá v jevó dni obédy byváli xúže: bábuška bralá xoróšeje mjáso, a on — trebuxú, pečónku, ljóxkije, syčúg.

     Everything in the household was very strictly shared out: one day Grandmother would get the dinner ready with food she’d bought, and the next day Grandfather bought the food – on those days dinner was invariably worse. Grandmother would buy good quality meat, but Grandfather was content with tripe, liver, lights, or stuffed pig’s belly.

• рубе́ц m (rubéc, “rumen, paunch”)
• се́тка f (sétka, “reticulum, bonnet”)
• кни́жка f (knížka, “omasum, psalterium”)

• сычужо́к (syčužók)
• сычу́жина (syčúžina)