сеӈ

Ket

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sʲeˑn˧], [seʲˑn˧˥][1]

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *seŋʷ (“liver, vital internal organ”). Perhaps distantly cognate with Navajo azid (“liver”), see the Proto-Yeniseian page for more.

Historical forms

  • No historical forms attested.

Noun

сеӈ (sʲēˑŋ) n (plural сеӈан (sʲēˑŋaŋ), сеӈын (sʲēˑŋɨn))

  1. (anatomy) liver
    • c. 1972, T. I. Toporov, Сказки Народов Сибирского Севера page 79:
      Хунэго хуна, амэдә ӄаго сеӈка топыльтетулькет.
      Hunɛ́ɣɔ huna, amɛɾə qāːɣɔ sʲēˑnga topɨlʲtʲɛtulʲget.
      My dear daughter, calm down; and take your mother's kind words by heart.
      (literally, “...consider them with [your] liver.”)

See also

  • Yeniseian entry guidelines § Historical bibliography

References

  1. ^ Georg, Stefan (2007), A Descriptive Grammar of Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak) Part 1: Introduction, Phonology, Morphology, Cromwell: Global Oriental, →ISBN

Further reading

  • Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 341
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “сеӈ (II)”, in Словарь кетско-русский и русско-кетский: Учебное пособие для учащихся начальной школы‎[1], 2 edition, Saint-Petersburg: Drofa, →ISBN, page 76
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), “1s'e·ŋ”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 190
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