нися

Tundra Nenets

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *eysä, from Proto-Uralic *ićä. Cognates include Finnish isä and Hungarian ős.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnʲiːsʲa/

Noun

нися • (ńīśa)

1. father

References

• A. P. Pyrerka and N. M. Tereshenko, editors (1948) Русско-Ненецкий словарь [Russian-Nenets dictionary], Moscow: Огиз, page 174
• Irina Nikolaeva (2014) A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, →ISBN, page 31