няʼ

Tundra Nenets

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *äŋ, from Proto-Uralic *aŋe (“opening”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nʲaʔ/

Noun

няʼ • (ńah)

1. mouth

References

• A. P. Pyrerka and N. M. Tereshenko, editors (1948) Русско-Ненецкий словарь [Russian-Nenets dictionary], Moscow: Огиз, page 247
• Irina Nikolaeva (2014) A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, →ISBN, page 23