моратбок

Ket

Etymology

Compound of *мора (*mora, “sea”) +‎ боʼк (boˀk, “fire, light from a fire source”) with Proto-Ketic *-d (“her, its”, third person singular feminine- or inanimate-class possessive clitic) stitched in.

The first element of the compound, *мора, does not exist in Ket by itself, being directly borrowed from Russian море (more, “sea”) instead.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɔ˩˧.rat.bɔk͉˧˩], [mɔ˩˧.rad̥.bɔɣ˧˩]

Noun

моратбок (móradbok) n (no plural)

1. northern lights, aurora borealis

Further reading

• Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 21
• Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 268