хысь

Ket

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *pʰɯsʌ (“crooked, twisted”, adjective).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [hɯs͉ʲ˥˩]

Adjective

хысь (hɨ̀sʲ)

  1. crooked, warped, distorted

Adverb

хысь (hɨ̀sʲ)

  1. crookedly, distorted
Usage notes
  • Central Ket varieties use хыысә (hɨ̀ːsə), while Northern Ket varieties use хыыси (hɨ̀ːsi) instead.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *pʰɯsʌ (expressive particle conveying intensity of action), possibly related to Ket усь (usʲ, particle in verb stems, dependent or independent of the verb, denoting an extreme in intensity or quantity of the action).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [hɯs͉ʲ˥˩]

Particle

хысь ~ хыся (hɨ̀sʲ, hɨ̀sa)

  1. so, sooo, oh so; expressive particle conveying intensity of action
Usage notes
  • An expressive particle that is not listed in БСКЯ, the most recent Ket dictionary. Only recorded use of this term is featured in VWdJS (with variety/dialect not specified) is the sentence Далапкутаӄ хыся! (Dalabkutaq hɨ̀sa! “She will bite you so hard!”)

References

  1. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 609
  2. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 609

Further reading

  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 345
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 188
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