больба
Ket
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *baŋ-pewtɬ-ja (“mushroom”, literally “earth-growth”). Cognate with Yug болба (bɔlba), Arin pen-bet-u (“mushroom”) and partially with Kott pol-šoja (“tree fungus”).
Noun
больба (bɔ́lʲba) f
- mushroom
- Ӄʼок кин больба дидульдоӄ. (Pakuliha dialect)
- Qɔˀk kīn bɔlʲba didulʲdɔq.
- An earthworm is eating a mushroom.
- Бу ӄотеюксьа больба. (Sulomay dialect)
- Bū tqɔtɛjuksʲa bolʲba.
- He picked up a mushroom.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbɔlʲ˩˥.pa], [ˈbɔlʲ˩˥.ba]
References
- Kotorova, Elizaveta, Nefedov, Andrey (2015) “bolba (f)”, in Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 127
- Vajda, Edward (2024) The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)[1], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, , →ISBN, page 392
- Werner, Heinrich (2002) “больба ж [мн. больбан, больбаан]”, in Словарь кетско-русский и русско-кетский: Учебное пособие для учащихся начальной школы[2], 2 edition, Saint-Petersburg: Drofa, →ISBN, page 25
- Werner, Heinrich (2002) “bɔ́l'ba (f., Pl. bɔ́l'ban)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 139-140