Nganasan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Samoyedic *səjmä, from Proto-Uralic *śilmä. Cognate with Finnish silmä and Hungarian szem.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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сеймы (sjejmɨ)

  1. (anatomy) eye

References

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  • N. T. Kosterkina, A. C. Momde, T. Y. Zhdanova (2001) “сеймы”, in Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 148