ӄә̄лы

Northern Selkup

Etymology

From Proto-Selkup *qwëlə, from Proto-Samoyedic *kålä, from Proto-Uralic *kala. Cognates include Tundra Nenets халя (xalya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /qɘː.lɨ/

Noun

ӄә̄лы (që̄ly)

1. fish

References

• O. A. Kazakevich, Ye. M. Budyanskaya (2010) Диалектологический словарь селькупского языка (северное наречие) [Dialectological dictionary of the Selkup language (Northern continuum)], Yekaterinburg: Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the RAS; Баско, →ISBN, page 247 of 368