From Proto-Samoyedic *merkä.
- IPA(key): [ˈmærɡ̊ɯ]
- Hyphenation: мер‧кы
меркы (mjerky)
- wind
- G. N. Prokofyev (1935) Селькупская грамматика[1], Scientific Research Association of the Institute of the Peoples of the North, page 19
- S. I. Irikov (1988) “меркы”, in Словарь селькуспко-русский и русско-селькупский, Prosveschenie, →ISBN, page 36