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Etymology
From Proto-Samoyedic *səjmä, from Proto-Uralic *śilmä. Cognate with Finnish silmä and Hungarian szem.
Pronunciation
Noun
сеймы • (sjejmɨ)
- (anatomy) eye
References
- N. T. Kosterkina, A. C. Momde, T. Y. Zhdanova (2001) “сеймы”, in Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 148