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ка́мья

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Southern Selkup

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Regional variants of ка́мья
Chumel dialects
Narym ка́мья (kám’ja)
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob каам (kaam)

Etymology

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From Proto-Samoyedic *kämə, from Proto-Uralic *kama.

Related to Hungarian hámoz and Finnish kamara. Compare Tundra Nenets сяв (syaw°).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ка́мья (kám’ja) (Narym)

  1. tench
  2. bittern
  3. scale (of fish)
    Synonym: лӱ́нчи (lǘnči)

Further reading

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  • I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 56 of 240