ӄуʼсь

Ket

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *qus (“birchbark tent, house”).[1][2]

(Editor's note: Glossed as 'tent made of birchbark' for Ket and Yug, but simply as 'house' for other Yeniseian languages.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²qus/, [quʔu̯s͉ʲ˥˧]

Noun

ӄуʼсь (quˀsʲ) n (plural ӄуʼӈ)

  1. traditional birchbark tent, a chum-tent

References

  1. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=812&root=config
  2. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 725

Further reading

  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 140
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, pages 323-324
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