кве

Selkup

Alternative forms

ӄя (Taz dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *koəj, from Proto-Uralic *kojwa. Cognates include Tundra Nenets хо, Finnish koivu and Hungarian hajó (“ship”).

Noun

кве (kw’e)

birch
- 2022, Grogorij Korotkih, Современный язык нарымских селькупов (in Russian), page 59:
  Тепт кве́тӄо, ӄай ӄу́тӄо ӄап.
  Sap for birch is the same as blood for human.

Further reading

G.V. Korotkih (2022) Современный язык нарымских селькупов [The modern language of Narym Selkups], Tomsk: Соиздательство ценных книг «Грасион», page 59

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