келу

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic كەلۋ
Cyrillic келу
Latin kelu

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kel-i-g (coming, gerund of *kel-). Cognate with Kyrgyz келүү (kelüü), Yakut кэлии (kelii); Uzbek kel-, Azerbaijani gəl-, etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ke.lʉw/, [kʰʲe.lʉw]

Verb

келу • (kelu)

  1. to come
  2. to arrive, advent
  3. to visit

Conjugation

Noun

келу • (kelu) (verbal noun)

  1. visit

Declension

Derived terms

Moksha

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *kojwa. Cognate with Erzya килей (kiľej). The -lej element in the latter is secondary.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʲelu/[2]

Noun

келу • (kelu)

  1. (botany) birch
    • O. Je. Poljakov (1995) Učimsja govoritʹ po-mokšanski [Let's learn to speak Moksha], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN
      келу, -фт
      kelu , -ft
      birch, -es

Usage notes

According to Cygankin, the deleted final (-v) (followed by -о- (-o-)) reappears in genitive, dative and causative in singular and nominative in plural: келувонь, келувонди, келувонкса, келуфт (keluvoń , keluvonďi, keluvonksa, keluft),[3] later he gives several singular forms without the reappearance of the -v element, it, however, always reappears in plural (with devoicing: /v/ > /f/).

Declension

Coordinate terms

References

  1. Entry #334 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ḱelu in Heikki Paasonen, Mordwinisches Wörterbuch
  3. Cygankin, D. V. (1980) Grammatika mordovskix jazykov. Fonetika, grafika, orfografija, morfologija [Mordvinic grammar] (in Russian), Saransk, page 154

Further reading

  • Partial indefinite paradigm (келунь, келунди, келуда, келуса, келуста (keluń, kelunďi, keluda, kelusa, kelusta)) in Cygankin, D. V. (1980) Grammatika mordovskix jazykov. Fonetika, grafika, orfografija, morfologija [Mordvinic grammar] (in Russian), Saransk, page 229
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