у́ргу

Southern Selkup

Regional variants of у́ргу

Chumel dialects
Narym	у́ргу
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob	уургу

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *u-, from Proto-Uralic *uje-.

Related to Hungarian úszik and Finnish ujua. Compare Northern Selkup уу (uu) and Tundra Nenets ӈусь (ŋusʹ°).

Verb

у́ргу (transliteration needed) (Narym)

1. (intransitive) to swim

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• у́решпэгу

 

Further reading

• I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 124 of 240