няʼнь

Ket

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Ketic *nʲaˀnʲ ~ *nʲäˀnʲ (“bread”), itself a widespread loanword also found in neighbouring Uralic languages, ultimately borrowed from Classical Persian نان (nān, “bread, naan”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [nʲaʔa̯nʲ˥˧], [nʲæʔæ̯nʲ˥˧]

Noun

няʼнь (naˀnʲ) n (no plural)

  1. bread

References

  1. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 503

Further reading

  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 26
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 268
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