хивнэ

Itelmen

Alternative forms

  • хэйвнэ, хайэн

Etymology

From Proto-Chukotko-Kamchatkan *ləʀiɣən(ə) (“wolf”). Cognate with Chukchi иʼны (iʼnə).

Noun

хивнэ (xivne) (plural хивнэʔн)

  1. wolf

References

  • Volodin, Aleksandr P., Ono, Chikako (2021) Полный ительменско-русский словарь [Comprehensive Itelmen-Russian Dictionary]‎[1], Fürstenberg/Havel: Kulturstiftung Sibirien, →ISBN, page 275.
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