ӣгу

Southern Selkup

Regional variants of ӣгу
Chumel dialects
Narym ӣгу (jīgu)
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob иигу (iigu)

Alternative forms

  • и́гу (ígu)
  • и̇̄гу (i̇̄gu)

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *i-, from Proto-Uralic *wexe-.

Related to Hungarian vesz and Southern Sami viëkedh. Cognate with Northern Selkup ӣӄо.

Pronunciation

Verb

ӣгу (jīgu) (Narym)

  1. (intransitive) to take

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

  • то ӣгу (tojīgu)
  • то ӣшпэгу (tojīšpegu)
  • ӣшпэгу (jīšpegu)

Further reading

  • I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 51 of 240