хабэу-хабэу

Northern Yukaghir

Etymology

From Proto-Yukaghir *kabe:w

Interjection

хабэу-хабэу (qabeu-qabeu)

1. imitating the cry of a willow ptarmigan

References

• Nikolaeva, Irina (2006) A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir (Trends in Linguistics Documentation; 25), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 200
• Kurilov, Гаврил (2001) Юкагирско-русский словарь, Novosibirsk: Nauka