баам
Ket
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Ketic *báqam (“grandmother, old woman”), further analyzable as a nominalized compound of аб (āb, “my”, first person singular possessive pronoun) + ӄима (qíma, “grandmother”). Compare Ket баат (báàt, “old man”), formed identically.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]баам (báàm) f (plural бамаӈ)
References
[edit]- ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 114
Further reading
[edit]- Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 111
- Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 108