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кирье

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Etymology

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Has been compared to Proto-Uralic *kurɜ (knife) (whence Finnish kuras) and Even гирдай (girdaj, to cut).

Noun

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кирье (kirʹje)

  1. knife

References

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  • Ferdinand von Wrangel (1841) Прибавленія къ путешествію по сѣвернымъ берегамъ Сибири и Ледовитому Морю [Supplements to the adventure along the northern shores of Siberia and the Arctic Ocean] (in Russian), volume 2, Saint Petersburg, page 122
  • Nikolaeva, Irina (2006) A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir (Trends in Linguistics Documentation; 25), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 213