ӄай

Ket

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Alternative forms

  • ӄайи (qáji) (Northern Ket dialects)
  • ӄайъ (qájʌ) (Central Ket dialects)

Etymology

From earlier kxáaje, xáája, from Proto-Ketic *qaˀʌjʌ, inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *ɢaj-Vŋʷ-ja (“deer, moose”, literally “the hunted one”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [qaj˥˩]

Noun

ӄай (qàj) m (plural ӄиин (qíìn))

  1. (zoology) moose
    Synonym: оллас (ɔllas, “young elk”)
    Ӄайда иӈольтә усям. (Pakuliha dialect)
    Qajda iŋɔlʲtə usʲam.
    The pelt of a moose makes me warm.

References

  • Kotorova, Elizaveta, Nefedov, Andrey (2015) “qàj”, in Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 283
  • Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “ӄай (I) (м) [мн. ӄиин]”, in Словарь кетско-русский и русско-кетский: Учебное пособие для учащихся начальной школы‎[1], 2 edition, Saint-Petersburg: Drofa, →ISBN, page 54
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “⁴qaj (IV)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 62
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005) “kxáaje (M, W), xáaja (Kl)”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 49, 55
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