гвэй

Southern Selkup

Regional variants of гвэй

Chumel dialects
Narym	гвэй, ӷвэй
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob	куай

Alternative forms

• ӷвэй

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *wahŋtut, from Proto-Uralic *wajŋi.

Related to Finnish vaimo (“wife”). Cognates with Tundra Nenets бачуˮ (baćuq).

Noun

гвэй (transliteration needed) (Narym)

1. wind
2. breath
3. soul

Further reading

• I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 50 of 240