десь
See also: Appendix:Variations of "des"
Ket
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *des (“eye”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]десь (dēsʲ) n (plural дэсь or дэсьтаӈ)
Usage notes
[edit]- десь refers to a single eye (as in an eyeball,) while дэсь can be used to refer to a pair. дэсьтаӈ meanwhile refers to multiple pairs of eyes.
- Central and Northern Ket varieties use the variant дээси and its plural дестигин instead.
References
[edit]- ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 202
Further reading
[edit]- Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 187
- Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, pages 144-145
Ukrainian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From де (de) + -сь (-sʹ). Compare Polish gdzieś.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]десь • (desʹ)
References
[edit]- Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “десь”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka