ӄө

• ӄу (ḳu) — Vakh-Vasyugan
• қө (ḳø)

From Proto-Khanty *kō, from Proto-Uralic *koje. Cognates include Northern Khanty хө (hø), Northern Mansi хуй (huj) and Kildin Sami кӯйй (kūjj).

• IPA^(key): [qoː]

ӄө (ḳø) (Surgut)

1. man

   Synonym: ики (iki)

• Elena Skribnik, editor (2016), Ob-Ugric Database: analysed text corpora and dictionaries for less described Ob-Ugric dialects‎^[1], University of Munich
• Volkova, A. N., Solovar, V. N. (2016) “ӄө”, in Краткий русско-хантыйский словарь (сургутский диалект) [Short Russian-Khanty Dictionary (Surgut dialect)]‎^[2] (in Russian), Khanty-Mansiysk: Югорский формат, →ISBN, page 56
• Volkova, A. N., Solovar, V. N. (2018) “ӄө”, in Хантыйско-русский тематический словарь (сургутский диалект) [Khanty-Russian Thematic Dictionary (Surgut dialect)]‎^[3] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: РГПУ имени А.И. Герцена, →ISBN, page 24

• IPA^(key): [qoˑ˧]^[1]

From earlier xojum, kogem, kogom, kogon, kon, inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *qag (“ten, 10”).

ӄө (qō) (counting form ӄөсь (qōsʲ))

1. (cardinal number) ten, 10

   Ат ӄө-хольбин бәнь асанъйбагоӷон. (Maduyka dialect)

   Āt qō-hɔlʲbin bə̄nʲ asanʌjbaɣɔʁɔn.

   I'm not telling ever.

   (literally, “I'm not telling you ten times [even.]”)

   Саан ӄөсин ӄөт даӈӷей. ("Сказки Народов Сибирского Севера. (1981)", СНСС81:28)

   Sáàn qōsin qōt daŋɢɛj.

   I killed at least a dozen squirrels.

From earlier xau, inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *qogʷ (“ice”).

ӄө (qō) n (no plural)

1. ice, chunks of ice

   Ӄө рахитегет. (Maduyka dialect)

   Qō rahitɛɣɛt.

   Ice-drifting.

2. icicle, drooping chunk of ice

   Ырь, ӄө аӄнаӈаль тосиль-хыта аӈапта. (Kellog dialect)

   Ɨrʲ, qō aqnaŋalʲ tɔsilʲ-hɨta aŋapta.

   In the spring, icicles hang from the trees.

From earlier ko, goːu, kuú, inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *gokʷ-ja (“mouth”).

ӄө (qō) n (plural ӄоʼн (qɔˀn))

1. (anatomy) mouth, jaw

   Ӄөась ат еляӈильгаӈтинен! ("Кетские фольклорные и бытовые тексты", КФТ:88)

   Qɔasʲ at-ɛlʲaŋilʲgaŋtinɛn!

   Don't breathe with your mouth!

Apocopate version of ӄөп (qōp, “summit, top”).

ӄө (qō) n (plural ӄоон (qɔ́ɔ̀n))

1. (botany) top, high-part, treetop

   Тъӈд ӄоон. (Kureyka dialect)

   Tʌŋd qɔ́ɔ̀n.

   Tops of your hair.

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *qag-Vŋʷ (“full”).

ӄө (qō)

1. whole, full

   Ап дъʼӄ ӄө, хай игдаван. (Kellog dialect)

   Āb dʌˀq qō, hāj igdavan.

   I have everything [I want], and there's still more to come.

   (literally, “My life is whole, ...”)

• Kotorova, Elizaveta, Nefedov, Andrey (2015) “qō (1, 2, 3, 4)”, in Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, pages 298-299
• Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*qo (8)/*qoˀn”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 2, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, pages 670-671
• Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*qogʌ, *qogʌ < *qagʌ (1, 2)”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 2, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 678
• Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*qop < *qap”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 2, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 700
• Werner, Heinrich (2002) “ӄө (I, II, III, IV)”, in Словарь кетско-русский и русско-кетский: Учебное пособие для учащихся начальной школы‎^[4], 2 edition, Saint-Petersburg: Drofa, →ISBN, page 62
• Werner, Heinrich (2002) “¹qoˑ (I, II, III, IV)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 126
• Werner, Heinrich (2005) “ice, mouth, ten”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 304, 310, 327