ӿиф

Nivkh

Etymology

Perhaps related to Proto-Yeniseian *qiwχ (“birch tree bark”) and also Proto-Athabaskan *qˀəx, *qˀej, *qˀi (“birch tree”),[1] see the former for more.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hif/
  • IPA(key): /hif/
    • (younger speakers) IPA(key): [hʲif]

Noun

ӿиф (hif)

  1. birchbark

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Fortescue, Michael, Vajda, Edward (2022) Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 469
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