къʼй

Ket

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *kʰʌj (“going, hunting”, verb base), derived from Proto-Yeniseian *Hejiŋ (“going, moving”, verb base).[1][2]

A front voweled variant is found in Ket еиӈ (éjiŋ, “going, the act of going”, action nominal).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²kəj/, [kʌʔʌ̯ç˥˧]

Verb

къʼй (kəˀj) (action nominal)

  1. walking, the act of walking; hunting, the act of hunting

References

  1. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=350&root=config
  2. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, pages 321, 438

Further reading

  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 472
  • Vajda, Edward J.; Zinn, Marina (2004), Kotorova, Elizaveta G., editor, Морфологический словарь кетского глагола (in Russian), Tomsk: Томского государственного педагогического университет (TGPU), page 165
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 249
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