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гвэй

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Southern Selkup

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Regional variants of гвэй
Chumel dialects
Narym гвэй, ӷвэй (gwej, ģwej)
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob куай (kuaj)

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Samoyedic *wahŋtut, from Proto-Uralic *wajŋe.

Related to Finnish vaimo (“wife”). Cognates with Tundra Nenets бачуˮ (baćuq).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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гвэй (gwej) (Narym)

  1. wind
  2. breath
  3. soul

Further reading

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  • I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 50 of 240
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