кирье

Omok

Etymology

Has been compared to Proto-Uralic *kurɜ (“knife”) (whence Finnish kuras) and Even гирдай (girdaj, “to cut”).

Noun

кирье (kirʹje)

1. knife

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 122
• Nikolaeva, Irina (2006) A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir (Trends in Linguistics Documentation; 25), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 213