касай

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Northern Mansi

Alternative forms

  • (käsi)Central Mansi

Etymology

From Proto-Mansi *kä̆škǟj, from Proto-Uralic *kečɜ.[1] Cognates include Hungarian kés.

Noun

касай (kasaj)(Sosva)

  1. knife

References

  1. ^ Entry #276 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

Further reading

  • Afanasʹjeva, K. V., Sobjanina, S. A. (2012) “касай”, in Školʹnyj mansijsko-russkij slovarʹ [Mansi-Russian school dictionary], Khanty-Mansiysk: RIO IRO
  • Mansi Dictionary of Munkácsi and Kálmán