варӷ

Southern Selkup
Regional variants of варӷ
Chumel dialects
Narym варӷ
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob уарх

Alternative forms
  • варг (rare)

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *årkå, from *årë (compare Tundra Nenets ӈар (ŋar°)).

Cognates include Northern Selkup вәрӄы, Tundra Nenets ӈарка (ŋarka) and Kamassian урго (urgo).

Adjective

варӷ (transliteration needed) (Narym)

  1. big
    • 2022, Grigorij Korotkih, Современный язык нарымских селькупов (overall work in Russian), page 24:
      Мат табэна́ндо варӷ э̄як хомбла́ пот кунд шаӄ.
      I five years older (lit. bigger) than her.

Further reading
  • I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 48 of 240
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