къе

• къйга (kʌ́jga)

From earlier keigo, keigó, kójgo,^[1] from Proto-Ketic *kʌje ~ *kʌjga, perhaps inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *kaɬ-ga (“head”).

Cognate with Yug къйгын (kʌjgɨn, “head”), Arin kólk'a, kedake, olkä and Pumpokol kólka.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʌ˩˧.jɛ̞˧˩], [ˈkə˩˧.jɛ̞˧˩]

къе (kʌ́je) n (no plural)

1. (anatomy, zootomy) head

   Тотпыль къя. (Alinskoe dialect)

   Tɔtpɨlʲ kʌja.

   A bald head.

   Ат дульэнда къйга-булаӈт-ӄонь. (Maduyka dialect)

   Āt dulʲɛ́nda kʌjga-bulaŋt-qɔnʲ.

   I'm soaked wet from head to toe.

2. (sociology) leader

   Къя дуно. (Kellog dialect)

   Kʌja dūnɔ.

   The headwoman passed away.

   Ъта къян ӄусьт хыйга дигелетин. (Kellog dialect)

   Ʌta kʌjan^[2] qusʲt hɨjga diɣɛlɛtin.

   Our chieftains have gathered in the tent.

• Kotorova, Elizaveta, Nefedov, Andrey (2015) “kəjka, also kəja”, in Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, pages 249-250
• Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*kʌje, *kʌjga/*kʌlga”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 439
• Werner, Heinrich (2002) “къе, къйга (с)”, in Словарь кетско-русский и русско-кетский: Учебное пособие для учащихся начальной школы‎^[1], 2 edition, Saint-Petersburg: Drofa, →ISBN, page 50
• Werner, Heinrich (2002) “*kʌ́je”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 460
• Werner, Heinrich (2005) “head”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 301