дуʼ

See also: ду and Appendix:Variations of "du"

Ket

Etymology

From earlier du ("steam"),[1] inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *dukʷ (smoke). Cognate with Yug ду’ (duˀ), Kott tu, Assan tu, Arin tʲu and Pumpokol dúkar (tobacco).

Noun

дуʼ (duˀn (no plural)

  1. smoke
    Тъӈӷат эрьдиӈаль дуʼ угот. (Kellog dialect)
    Tʌŋɢat ɛrʲdiŋalʲ duˀ uɣɔt.
    There's smoke coming out of the stovepipe.
    Дуʼ баʼӈ дакайнам. (Sulomay dialect)
    Duˀ baˀŋ dakajnam.
    Smoke covered the ground.
  2. soot
    Ат дуʼ сьистууголбет. (Sulomay dialect)
    Āt duˀ tsʲistuuɣɔlbɛt.
    I cleaned out the soot.

Pronunciation

Derived terms

  • дугот (duɣɔt, fumigur, smokestack; smoking fire for protection from insects)

References

  1. ^ Werner, Heinrich (2005) “du (Ad, VW) (Das Imbazkische)”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 44
  2. ^ Georg, Stefan (2007) A Descriptive Grammar of Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak) Part 1: Introduction, Phonology, Morphology, Cromwell: Global Oriental, →ISBN, page 50
  • Fortescue, Michael, Vajda, Edward (2022) “9.) ~*dujkʷ”, in Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 330-331
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta, Nefedov, Andrey (2015) “duˀ (n., no pl.)”, in Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 156
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “дуʼ (с) [мн. дунеӈ ]”, in Словарь кетско-русский и русско-кетский: Учебное пособие для учащихся начальной школы[2], 2 edition, Saint-Petersburg: Drofa, →ISBN, page 34
  • Vajda, Edward (2024) “*dukʷ/dukʷ-Vŋ (Table 15:5.1)”, in The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[3], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 412
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “(2) duˀ (n., Pl. dún'aŋ)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 210
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005) “smoke”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 323