халя

See also: хала

Tundra Nenets

Халя.

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *kålä, from Proto-Uralic *kala. Cognates include Finnish kala and Hungarian hal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxalʲa/

Noun

халя • (xaľa)

1. fish

References

• A. P. Pyrerka and N. M. Tereshenko, editors (1948) Русско-Ненецкий словарь [Russian-Nenets dictionary], Moscow: Огиз, page 248
• Irina Nikolaeva (2014) A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, →ISBN, page 26