килле

Omok

Etymology

From Proto-Yukaghir *kinle, with an assimilation of -n- into the following -l-.

Noun

килле (kille)

1. fox (Vulpes vulpes)

References

• Ferdinand von Wrangel (1841) Прибавленія къ путешествію по сѣвернымъ берегамъ Сибири и Ледовитому Морю [Supplements to the adventure along the northern shores of Siberia and the Arctic Ocean] (in Russian), volume 2, Saint Petersburg, page 121