сива

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Tundra Nenets

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *käjwå.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: си‧ва

Noun

сива (syiwa)

  1. shovel

References

  • Pyrerka, A. P., Tereščenko, N. M. (1948) Русско-ненецкий словарь [Russian–Nenets Dictionary], Moscow: Огиз, page 127
  • N. M. Tereschenko (2005) “сива”, in Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN

Ukrainian

Pronunciation

Adjective

си́ва (sýva)

  1. feminine nominative singular of си́вий (sývyj)