хасава

Tundra Nenets

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *kåəså.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [hʌsʌwʌ]
  • Hyphenation: ха‧са‧ва

Noun

хасава • (xasawa)

  1. man, male

Usage notes
  • Dialectally, people of Nenets ethnicity are called хасава (literally "male"). Compare the standard ненэцьʼ (nyenecʹ).

Derived terms

References
  • Pyrerka, A. P., Tereščenko, N. M. (1948) Русско-ненецкий словарь [Russian–Nenets Dictionary], Moscow: Огиз, page 136
  • N. M. Tereschenko (1965) “хасава”, in Ненецко-русский словарь, Moscow: Советская Энциклопедия
  • Irina Nikolaeva (2014) A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, →ISBN, page 26
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