лёвет

Ket

Etymology

From earlier *lobet (“work”, infinitive verb), borrowed from Russian работа (rabota, “work”).[1] Also compare the parallel borrowing in Yug робот (róbot, “working, the act of working”),[2] again from Russian.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /⁵lobed/, [ɮʲɔ˩˧βɛt˧˩] ~ [ɮʲɔ˩˧βɛɾʲ˧˩]

Verb

лёвет (lóbed) (action nominal)

  1. working, the act of working; laboring, the act of laboring

Usage notes

  • Found as лёверь where the final phoneme /d/ appears in inlaut position, for example in the sentence Бу далёверавет. (Bū dalóbedabed. «da⁸꞊lóbed⁷-a⁴-bed⁰», [daˑɮʲɔ˩˧βɛ˧˩ɾʲaβɛt], “She works.”)

References

  1. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 481
  2. ^ Werner, Heinrich K. (2012), Vajda, Edward J., editor, Dictionary of the Yugh language (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 47), Muenchen: Lincom GmbH, →ISBN, page 246

Further reading

  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 13-14
  • Vajda, Edward J.; Zinn, Marina (2004), Kotorova, Elizaveta G., editor, Морфологический словарь кетского глагола (in Russian), Tomsk: Томского государственного педагогического университет (TGPU), pages 128-129
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 262
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