ҷын

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Southern Selkup

Regional variants of ҷын
Chumel dialects
Narym ҷын
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob тэн (ten)

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *cën, from Proto-Uralic *sëne.

Related to Finnish suoni and Hungarian ín. Cognate with Tundra Nenets тэ̇ʼ (tėh).

Pronunciation

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Noun

ҷын (transliteration needed) (Narym)

  1. (anatomy) sinew, tendon

Declension

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References

  • G.V. Korotkih (2022) Современный язык нарымских селькупов [The modern language of Narym Selkups], Tomsk: Соиздательство ценных книг «Грасион», →ISBN, page 111 of 150