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Southern Selkup
Regional variants of каали
Chumel dialects
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Narym
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ӄа̄линыл (qālinyl)
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Tyuj dialects
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Upper Ob
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каали (kaali)
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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)
- (anatomy) armpit
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
References
- G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023) Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района , Molchanovo, page 100 of 109