варӷ

Southern Selkup

Regional variants of варӷ

Chumel dialects
Narym	варӷ
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob	уарх

Alternative forms

• варг (rare)

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *årkå, from *årë (compare Tundra Nenets ӈар (ŋar°)).

Cognates include Northern Selkup вәрӄы, Tundra Nenets ӈарка (ŋarka) and Kamassian урго (urgo).

Adjective

варӷ (transliteration needed) (Narym)

1. big
   • 2022, Grigorij Korotkih, Современный язык нарымских селькупов (overall work in Russian), page 24:

     Мат табэна́ндо варӷ э̄як хомбла́ пот кунд шаӄ.

     I five years older (lit. bigger) than her.

Further reading

• I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 48 of 240