цивиль

Omok

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian чувал (čuval). Cognate with Southern Yukaghir чибаль (čibalʹ).

Noun

цивиль (ciwilʹ)

1. yurt

Derived terms

• Кхая-цивель (Kqaja-ciwelʹ, “sky”)

References

• 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 146