Southern Selkup

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Regional variants of илэгу́
Chumel dialects
Narym илэгу́, элгу́ (ilegú, elgú)
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob йилэгу (jilegu)

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Selkup *ilə-, from Proto-Samoyedic *ilä-, from Proto-Uralic *elä-.

Related to Hungarian él and Finnish elää.

Verb

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илэгу́ (ilegú) (Narym)

  1. (intransitive) to live
    Synonym: варгэгу́ (wargegú)

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 52 of 240