каали

Southern Selkup

Regional variants of каали
Chumel dialects
Narym ӄа̄линыл (qālinyl)
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob каали (kaali)

Etymology

From Proto-Selkup *qāləń, from Proto-Samoyedic *kalɜŋ.

Cognate with Tundra Nenets сялʼ (syal).

Pronunciation

Noun

каали (kaali) (Upper-Ob)

  1. (anatomy) armpit

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

  • G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023), Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района [Tjuykuy Yezhissan – Selkup dictionary for Molchanovo district Selkup people], Molchanovo, page 100 of 109