ляӈат

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Ket

Alternative forms

  • ляʼӈ (lʲaˀŋ) (Rare or obsolete variant)

Etymology

Compound of ляʼӈ (lʲaˀŋ, “hand”) +‎ аʼт (aˀt, “bone”), further derived from ля (lʲa, “strand, tassel”). Further origin murky, though a potential cognate exists in Kott d'a-ti (“to whip, to lash”, literally “strand-beat”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ляӈат (lʲáŋat) (plural ляӈен (lʲáŋʲɛn) or ляӈатн (lʲáŋatn))

  1. (anatomy) hand, arm
    Synonyms: бетить (bɛtitʲ), хъӈн (hʌŋn), ыль (ɨ̄lʲ)
    Ляӈен уськә сим датаӈаюля! (Maduyka dialect)
    Lʲaŋɛn usʲkə sʲīm dataŋajulʲa!
    May those hands of yours wither away!
    (literally, “May your hands be pulled back ”)
    Дахаантет ляӈат. (Sulomay dialect)
    Daháàntɛt lʲaŋat.
    She broke her arm.

References

  1. ^ Georg, Stefan (2007) A Descriptive Grammar of Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak) Part 1: Introduction, Phonology, Morphology, Cromwell: Global Oriental, →ISBN, page 131
  2. ^ Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*lāˑ”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 2, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 472

Further reading

  • Kotorova, Elizaveta, Nefedov, Andrey (2015) “laŋad”, in Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 260
  • Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “laŋat”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), volume 2, Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 476
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “ляӈат”, in Словарь кетско-русский и русско-кетский: Учебное пособие для учащихся начальной школы‎, 2 edition, Saint-Petersburg: Drofa, →ISBN, page 69
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “²l'aˀŋ”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 9
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “l'áŋat”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 8
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