ӄөнь

Ket

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Ketic *qon (“necklace?, glass bead?”).[1][2]

(Editor's note: Sergej A. Starostin's comparison with the word 'bead/iron object' in "North Caucasian languages" of Lezghian, Archi, et cetera should be rejected.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /¹qon/, [qoˑnʲ˧]

Noun

ӄөнь (qōnʲ) n (plural ӄөнъӈ)

  1. glass beads (made of coarse molten glass); necklace (made of said glass beads)

References

  1. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=560&root=config
  2. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 689

Further reading

  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 103, 127
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 314
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