дэʼ

From earlier de,^[1] inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *dejxʷ (“sandbar, shoal; lake”). Cognate with Yug дэʼ (dɛˀ), Kott ûr-têx, Assan ur-tég/ol-teg-an, Arin kur-tʲu, Arin deé (“sea”) and Pumpokol dan-niŋ (“lakes”).

дэʼ (dɛˀ) n (plural деӈ (dɛ̄ŋ))

1. (hydrology) lake

   Ат унаӈ домнун дэга. (Kellog dialect)

   Āt unaŋ dɔmnun dɛɣa.

   I set a fishing net on the lake.

   Киде дэга ись он усям. (Kureyka dialect)

   Kiɾɛ dɛɣa īsʲ ɔ̀n usʲam.

   There're plenty of fish in the lake.

   Саʼн дэʼ. (Yeloguy settlements dialects)

   Saˀn dɛˀ.

   A lake with crucian fish.

2. bog, swamp, marshland

   Әтн асоӄ дэбесь дъӈонь. (Kellog dialect)

   Ə̄tn asɔq dɛbɛsʲ dʌŋɔnʲ.

   We were walking through a marshy swamp.

   Дэʼ хънунсь. (Sulomay dialect)

   Dɛˀ hʌnúnsʲ.

   [It's] a small marshland.

3. tundra

   Дэга аʼӄ бәнь даяӈтийин. (Kellog dialect)

   Dɛɣa aˀq bə̄nʲ dajaŋtijin.

   Trees don't grow in the tundra.

   Туде дэга ӄътн дэсигин. (Pakuliha dialect)

   Tudɛ dɛɣa qʌtn dɛːsiɣin.

   In this tundra, the wolves are howling.

• IPA^(key): [dɛʔ˥˧]

• Fortescue, Michael, Vajda, Edward (2022) “7.) ~*dejxʷ”, in Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 329-330
• Kotorova, Elizaveta, Nefedov, Andrey (2015) “142”, in Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page deˀ (n., dēŋ)
• Werner, Heinrich (2002) “дэʼ (с) [мн. деӈ]”, in Словарь кетско-русский и русско-кетский: Учебное пособие для учащихся начальной школы‎^[2], 2 edition, Saint-Petersburg: Drofa, →ISBN, page 37
• Werner, Heinrich (2002) “dɛˀ (n., Pl. (1) deˑŋ/déŋn'iŋ)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 185
• Werner, Heinrich (2005) “lake”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 306