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Southern Selkup
Regional variants of хельҗь
| Chumel dialects
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| Narym
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хельҗь (xjel’ǯ’)
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| Tyuj dialects
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| Upper Ob
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сиэлдь (sield’)
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Etymology
From Proto-Samoyedic *säjʔwə, from Proto-Uralic *ćäjćemä. Related to Finnish seitsemän. Cognates include Nganasan сяйбә (sjajbə), Northern Selkup сельчи (sjeljći) and Kildin Sami кыджемь (kydžjem’).
Numeral
хельҗь (h’el’ǯ’) (Narym)
- seven
2022, Grigorij Korotkih, Современный язык нарымских селькупов (overall work in Russian), page 25:Челфа́тӄэт хельҗь челд.- Čjelfátqet xjel’ǯ’ čjeld.
- There are seven days in a week.
Further reading
- G.V. Korotkih (2022) Современный язык нарымских селькупов [The modern language of Narym Selkups], Tomsk: Соиздательство ценных книг «Грасион», →ISBN, page 67 of 150