чаӽ

Nivkh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /cʰaχ/

Noun

чаӽ (ț’aẋ)

1. water

Descendants

• Nanai: (Naykhin) сако (sako), (Kur-Urmi) саку̇ (saku̇)

References

• Cincius, V. I. (1977) Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков [Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Leningrad: Nauka, page 56
• Vovin, Alexander V. (2018) “Four Tungusic Etymologies”, in Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky, Christopher P. Atwood, editors, Philology of the Grasslands. Essays in Mongolic, Turkic, and Tungusic Studies (Languages of Asia; 17)‎^[1], Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 366–368