няʼ

Tundra Nenets

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *äŋ, from Proto-Uralic *aŋe (“opening”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nʲɐʔ]
• Hyphenation: няʼ

Noun

няʼ • (nyah)

1. mouth

References

• Pyrerka, A. P., Tereščenko, N. M. (1948) Русско-ненецкий словарь [Russian–Nenets Dictionary], Moscow: Огиз, page 247
• N. M. Tereschenko (2005) “няʼ”, in Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN
• Irina Nikolaeva (2014) A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, →ISBN, page 23