хэтась

Tundra Nenets

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *këttɜ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hɤtəsʲ(ə̥)]
• Hyphenation: хэ‧тась

Verb

хэ̇тӑсь • (xėtăsʹ°) pf (imperfective хэ̇тбӑсь or хэ̇тнӑсь)

1. (transitive) to say, tell
2. (transitive) to answer

References

• A. V. Almazova (1961), Самоучитель Ненецкого языка [Self-Teaching book of the Nenets language], Leningrad, page 54
• N. M. Tereschenko (1965), “хэ̇тӑ(сь)”, in Ненецко-русский словарь, Moscow: Советская Энциклопедия