у́ргу

Southern Selkup

Regional variants of у́ргу
Chumel dialects
Narym у́ргу (úrgu)
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob уургу (uurgu)

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *u-, from Proto-Uralic *uje-.

Related to Hungarian úszik and Finnish ujua. Compare Northern Selkup уу (uu) and Tundra Nenets ӈусь (ŋusʹ°).

Pronunciation

Verb

у́ргу (úrgu) (Narym)

  1. (intransitive) to swim

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

  • у́решпэгу (úrješpegu)

Further reading

  • I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 124 of 240
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