Southern Selkup edit

Regional variants of ши̇җь
Chumel dialects
Narym ши̇җь, ши̇д, ши̇в
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob сэде

Etymology edit

From Proto-Samoyedic *sijə, from Proto-Uralic *śüde. Cognates include Kamassian сиʼ (siʔ), Finnish sysi and Northern Sami čađđa.

Pronunciation edit

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Noun edit

ши̇җь (šįʒ’) (Narym)

  1. coal
  2. soot
  3. ash

Further reading edit

  • V.V. Bykonya, N.G. Kuznetsova, N.P. Maksimova (2005) Селькупско-русский диалектный словарь [Selkup-Russian dialectal dictionary], Tomsk: Томский государственный педагогический университет, →ISBN, page 297 of 348