Reconstruction:Proto-Selkup/warqə

This Proto-Selkup entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Selkup

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *årkå.

Adjective

*warqə

1. big

Descendants

• Northern Selkup: вәрӄы
• Southern Selkup:
  • Narym: варӷ (warģ)
  • Upper Ob: уарх (uarx)

References

• T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎^[1] (in Hungarian), page 16