Kazakh edit

Alternative scripts
Arabic كەلۋ
Cyrillic келу
Latin kelu

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *kel-i-g (coming, gerund of *kel-). Cognate with Kyrgyz келүү (kelüü), Yakut кэлии (kelii); Uzbek kel-, Azerbaijani gəl-, etc.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ke.lʉw/, [kʰʲe.lʉw]

Verb edit

келу (kelu)

  1. to come
  2. to arrive, advent
  3. to visit

Conjugation edit

Noun edit

келу (kelu) (verbal noun)

  1. visit

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Moksha edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Uralic *kojwa. Cognate with Erzya килей (kiľej). The -lej element in the latter is secondary.[1]

Pronunciation edit

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Noun edit

келу (kelu)

  1. (botany) birch
    • O. Je. Poljakov (1995) Učimsja govoritʹ po-mokšanski [Let's learn to speak Moksha], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN
      келу, -фт
      kelu , -ft
      birch, -es

Usage notes edit

According to Cygankin, the deleted final (-v) (followed by -о- (-o-)) reappears in genitive, dative and causative in singular and nominative in plural: келувонь, келувонди, келувонкса, келуфт (keluvoń , keluvonďi, keluvonksa, keluft),[3] later he gives several singular forms without the reappearance of the -v element, it, however, always reappears in plural (with devoicing: /v/ > /f/).

Declension edit

Coordinate terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Entry #334 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ ḱelu in Heikki Paasonen, Mordwinisches Wörterbuch
  3. ^ Cygankin, D. V. (1980) Grammatika mordovskix jazykov. Fonetika, grafika, orfografija, morfologija [Mordvinic grammar] (in Russian), Saransk, page 154

Further reading edit

  • Partial indefinite paradigm (келунь, келунди, келуда, келуса, келуста (keluń, kelunďi, keluda, kelusa, kelusta)) in Cygankin, D. V. (1980) Grammatika mordovskix jazykov. Fonetika, grafika, orfografija, morfologija [Mordvinic grammar] (in Russian), Saransk, page 229