ниӈк

Northern Mansi

Alternative forms
  • [script needed] (ńiχ) — Western Mansi

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *ńiŋe (“maggot, worm”) or *ńiwŋɜ.[1] Cognates include Hungarian nyű.

Noun

ниӈк (niňk)

  1. (obsolete) maggot, worm
    Synonyms: ма̄тар (mātar, “earthworm”), ня̄руй (nâ̄ruj, “caterpillar”), войкануй (wojkanuj)

References
  1. Entry #630 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

Further reading
  • Mansi Dictionary of Munkácsi and Kálmán
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