куриль

Northern Yukaghir

Etymology

From Proto-Yukaghir *kuriľ

Noun

куриль (kuriļ)

1. ornament made of coloured wolf skin pieces sewn up at the back and given to the shaman as a fee

References

• Nikolaeva, Irina (2006) A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir (Trends in Linguistics Documentation; 25), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 229
• Kurilov, Гаврил (2001) Юкагирско-русский словарь, Novosibirsk: Nauka