Southern Selkup Edit

Regional variants of кве
Chumel dialects
Tym кӓ
Vasyugan ка
Narym кве
Syosh dialects
Shyoshqup квэ
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob кіо

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Samoyedic *koəj, from Proto-Uralic *kojwa. Cognates include Tundra Nenets хо (xo), Finnish koivu and Hungarian hajó (ship).

Pronunciation Edit

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Noun Edit

кве (kw’e) (Narym)

  1. birch
    • 2022, Grigorij Korotkih, Современный язык нарымских селькупов (overall work in Russian), page 59:
      Тепт кве́тӄо, ӄай ӄу́тӄо ӄап.
      Sap for birch is the same as blood for human.

Further reading Edit

  • G.V. Korotkih (2022) Современный язык нарымских селькупов [The modern language of Narym Selkups], Tomsk: Соиздательство ценных книг «Грасион», →ISBN, page 59 of 150