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каль

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Ket

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *kʰaʌλʌ (“war, wage war”, noun and infinitive verb).[1][2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /⁴kal/, [kaɬʲ˥˩]

Noun

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каль (kàlʲ) n (no plural)

  1. war, fight

Verb

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каль (kàlʲ) (action nominal)

  1. warring, the act of warring; fighting, the act of fighting

Usage notes

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  • Central and Northern Ket varieties use кале (kàle) and more rarely кали (kàli) instead.

References

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  1. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=375&root=config
  2. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, pages 461-462

Further reading

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  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 406
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 224
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