Southern Selkup Edit

Regional variants of ӄвэл
Chumel dialects
Narym ӄвэл
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob куэл

Etymology Edit

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

Pronunciation Edit

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Noun Edit

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 Edit

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