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Southern Selkup
Regional variants of кве
| Chumel dialects
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| Tym
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кӓ (k’a)
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| Vasyugan
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ка (ka)
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| Narym
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кве (kwje)
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| Syosh dialects
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| Shyoshqup
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квē (kwē)
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| Tyuj dialects
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| Upper Ob
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кіо
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Etymology
From Proto-Selkup *qwǟ, from Proto-Samoyedic *koəj, from Proto-Uralic *kojwa.
Related to Finnish koivu and Hungarian hajó (“ship”). Cognates include Tundra Nenets хо (xo) and Northern Selkup ӄӓ̄ (qǟ)
Noun
кве (kw’e) (Narym)
- birch
2022, Grigorij Korotkih, Современный язык нарымских селькупов (overall work in Russian), page 59:Тепт кве́тӄо, ӄай ӄу́тӄо ӄап.- Tjept kwjétqo, qaj qútqo qap.
- Sap for birch is the same as blood for human.
Further reading
- G.V. Korotkih (2022) Современный язык нарымских селькупов , Tomsk: Соиздательство ценных книг «Грасион», →ISBN, page 59 of 150