баʼӈ

Ket

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *baŋ (earth, place, ground, land, region).[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²baŋ/, [baʔa̯ŋ̥˥˧]

Noun

баʼӈ (baˀŋn (plural баӈэн or баӈын)

  1. ground; land, earth, world; place, location; campsite
  2. time, -time (in set expressions, not as a concept itself)

Conjunction

баʼӈ (baˀŋ)

  1. during, while; where..., when... (analogous to the third sense of the noun)

References

Further reading

  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 110
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, pages 108-109