кве

Southern Selkup

Regional variants of кве

Chumel dialects
Tym	кӓ (k’a)
Vasyugan	ка (ka)
Narym	кве (kwje)
Syosh dialects
Shyoshqup	квэ (kwe)
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob	кіо

Alternative forms

• ӄве (qwje)

Etymology

From Proto-Selkup *k͔üə, from Proto-Samoyedic *koəj, from Proto-Uralic *kojwa.

Related to Finnish koivu and Hungarian hajó (“ship”). Cognates include Tundra Nenets хо (xo) and Northern Selkup ӄя (qja)

Noun

кве (kw’e) (Narym)

1. birch
   • 2022, Grigorij Korotkih, Современный язык нарымских селькупов (overall work in Russian), page 59:

     Тепт кве́тӄо, ӄай ӄу́тӄо ӄап.

     Tjept kwjétqo, qaj qútqo qap.

     Sap for birch is the same as blood for human.

Further reading

• G.V. Korotkih (2022) Современный язык нарымских селькупов [The modern language of Narym Selkups], Tomsk: Соиздательство ценных книг «Грасион», →ISBN, page 59 of 150