гвэй

Southern Selkup

Regional variants of гвэй
Chumel dialects
Narym гвэй, ӷвэй, ӄвэй (gwej, ģwej, qwej)
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob куай (kuaj)

Alternative forms

  • ӷвэй (ģwej), ӄвэй (qwej)

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *wajŋ, from Proto-Uralic *wajŋe.

Related to Finnish vaimo (“wife”). Cognates with Tundra Nenets бачуˮ (baćuq).

Pronunciation

Noun

гвэй (gwej) (Narym)

  1. wind
  2. breath
  3. soul

Further reading

  • I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 50 of 240
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.