нева́

Southern Selkup

Regional variants of нева́
Chumel dialects
Narym нева́ (njewá)

Etymology

From Proto-Selkup *ńoma, from Proto-Samoyedic *ńåmå, Proto-Uralic *ńoma.

Related to Hungarian nyúl. Cognate with Tundra Nenets нява (nyawa) and Nganasan нөму (nömu).

Pronunciation

Noun

нева́ (njewá) (Narym)

  1. hare

Further reading

  • I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) “нева́”, in Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 80 of 240