каали

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Southern Selkup

Regional variants of каали
Chumel dialects
Narym ӄа̄линыл (qālinyl)
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob каали (kaali)

Etymology

From Proto-Selkup *qāləń, from Proto-Samoyedic *kalɜŋ.

Cognate with Tundra Nenets сялʼ (syal).

Pronunciation

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Noun

каали (kaali) (Upper-Ob)

  1. (anatomy) armpit

Declension

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References

  • G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023) Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района , Molchanovo, page 100 of 109