шиҗь

Southern Selkup

Regional variants of шиҗь
Chumel dialects
Tym шиҗэ (šiǯe)
Narym шиҗь (šiǯ’)
Syusse dialects
Middle Ket сиде, сидя (sidje, sidja)
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob сэде (sedje)

Etymology

From Proto-Selkup *sīťə, from Proto-Samoyedic *sijə, from Proto-Uralic *śüde. Cognates include Kamassian сиʼ (siʔ), Finnish sysi and Northern Sami čađđa.

Noun

шиҗь (šiǯ’) (Narym)

  1. coal
  2. soot
  3. ash

References

  • I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 130 of 240