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Southern Selkup
Regional variants of ӄа́егу
Chumel dialects
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Narym
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ӄа́егу, ка̄егу (qájegu, kājegu)
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Tyuj dialects
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Upper Ob
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каайгу (kaajgu)
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Etymology
From Proto-Selkup *k͔āńǝ-, from Proto-Samoyedic *kəjə-, from Proto-Uralic *kuńa-.
Related to Hungarian huny. Cognates include Northern Mansi хонюӈкве (honûňkve) and Tundra Nenets хӑя̆сь (xăyăsʹ°).
Verb
ӄа́егу (qájegu) (Narym)
- to close
- to cover
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
- G.V. Korotkih (2022) Современный язык нарымских селькупов [The modern language of Narym Selkups], Tomsk: Соиздательство ценных книг «Грасион», →ISBN, page 98 of 150