бунык

Forest Enets

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *wën. Cognates include Tundra Nenets вэʼ (weh).

Noun

бунык (bunyk)

  1. dog

References

  • P. N. Sorokina (2001) C. D. Bolina, editor, Словарь Энецко-русский и Русско-Энецкий [Forest Enets-Russian and Russian-Forest Enets dictionary]‎[1], Saint-Petersburg, page 24