хасава

Tundra Nenets

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *kåəså.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʌsʌwʌ]
• Hyphenation: ха‧са‧ва

Noun

хасава • (xasawa)

1. man, male

Usage notes

• Dialectally, people of Nenets ethnicity are called хасава (literally "male"). Compare the standard ненэцьʼ (nyenecʹ).

Derived terms

• хасуюˮ (xasuyuq)

 

References

• Pyrerka, A. P., Tereščenko, N. M. (1948) Русско-ненецкий словарь [Russian–Nenets Dictionary], Moscow: Огиз, page 136
• N. M. Tereschenko (1965) “хасава”, in Ненецко-русский словарь, Moscow: Советская Энциклопедия
• Irina Nikolaeva (2014) A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, →ISBN, page 26