Northern Selkup

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Etymology

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From Proto-Selkup *qwëlə, from Proto-Samoyedic *kålä, from Proto-Uralic *kala. Cognates include Tundra Nenets халя (xalya).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ӄә̄лы (që̄ly)

  1. fish

References

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  • O. A. Kazakevich, Ye. M. Budyanskaya (2010) Диалектологический словарь селькупского языка (северное наречие) [Dialectological dictionary of the Selkup language (Northern continuum)], Yekaterinburg: Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the RAS; Баско, →ISBN, page 247 of 368