аҥа умусэйм

Northern Yukaghir

Etymology

From Proto-Yukaghir *aŋa

Verb

аҥа умусэйм (aŋa umusejm)

1. to kill
2. to put to death

(literally: ‘to close the mouth’)

References

• Nikolaeva, Irina (2006) A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir (Trends in Linguistics Documentation; 25), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 106
• E. S. Atlasova (2007) Словарь юкагирско-русский и русско-юкагирский (тундреный диалект) [Yukaghir-Russian and Russian-Yukaghir dictionary (Tundra dialect)], Saint-Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN