йәӈк

Eastern Khanty

Йәӈк.

Alternative forms

• йӛӈк (jjəṇk) — Vakh
• я̈ӈк (jäṇk) — Vasyugan

Etymology

From Proto-Khanty *jiŋk, from Proto-Uralic *jäŋe (“ice”). Cognates include Northern Khanty йиӈк (jiṇk), Northern Mansi я̄ӈк (â̄ňk, “ice”), Hungarian jég (“ice”) and Finnish jää (“ice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jəŋk]

Noun

йәӈк (jəṇk) (Surgut)

1. water

References

• Elena Skribnik, editor (2016), Ob-Ugric Database: analysed text corpora and dictionaries for less described Ob-Ugric dialects‎^[1], University of Munich
• Volkova, A. N., Solovar, V. N. (2016) “йәӈк”, in Краткий русско-хантыйский словарь (сургутский диалект) [Short Russian-Khanty Dictionary (Surgut dialect)]‎^[2] (in Russian), Khanty-Mansiysk: Югорский формат, →ISBN, page 20
• Volkova, A. N., Solovar, V. N. (2018) “йәӈк”, in Хантыйско-русский тематический словарь (сургутский диалект) [Khanty-Russian Thematic Dictionary (Surgut dialect)]‎^[3] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: РГПУ имени А.И. Герцена, →ISBN, page 190