каҗь

Southern Selkup

Regional variants of каҗь
Chumel dialects
Tym кадь (kad’)
Vasyugan каҗь (kaǯ’)
Narym каҗь (kaǯ’)
Syusse dialects
Chaya куоть (kuot’)
Middle Ket ӄот́т́е (qot́t́je)
Upper Ket кот́т́ы (kot́t́y)
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob кодя (kodja)

Etymology

From Proto-Selkup *ke̮ćə, possibly borrowed from Proto-Yeniseian *qid (man, human being) (cf. Ket кеʼт (kɛˀt, man)).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkad͡ʑ/
  • Hyphenation: каҗь

Noun

каҗь (kaǯ’) (Narym, Vasyugan)

  1. servant, worker

References

  1. ^ Werner, Heinrich (2002) “²kɛˀt (I, II)”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 420-421
  2. ^ Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*kʰeˀt (1, 2, 3)”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, pages 464-465
  • Alatalo, Jarmo (2004) Sölkupisches Wörterbuch aus Aufzeichnungen von Kai Donner, U. T. Sirelius und Jarmo Alatalo, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, →ISBN, page 330 of 465