ӄвэл

Southern Selkup

Regional variants of ӄвэл

Chumel dialects
Narym	ӄвэл
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob	куэл

Etymology

From Proto-Selkup *k͔uə̑le, from Proto-Samoyedic *kålä, from Proto-Uralic *kala. Cognates include Tundra Nenets халя (xalya), Finnish kala and Hungarian hal.

Noun

ӄвэл (qwel) (Narym)

1. fish
   • 2022, Grogorij Korotkih, Современный язык нарымских селькупов (overall work in Russian), page 57:

     Ӄвэлт ти̇́рэл то̄ла.

     Lakes full of fish.

Further reading

• G.V. Korotkih (2022) Современный язык нарымских селькупов [The modern language of Narym Selkups], Tomsk: Соиздательство ценных книг «Грасион», →ISBN, page 57 of 150