Udihe

Lexical words in Udihe

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Search: nimaŋku. 1 total hits in 1 transcripts.
Yegdige in a silk gown (1)
nimaŋku gegbi:-ni seure-me merge.
tale name.PRES.PTC-3SG silk-ADJ hero
tale name.PRES.ПРИЧ-3ЕД silk-ПРИЛ hero
This tale is called “The Silky Hero”.
А эта сказка называется «Сэурэмэ Мэрге» - «Шелковый Егдигэ».
In this tale the narrator sometimes pronounces the character’s name Seuleme (literally ‘silky’) as Seureme. The alternation r ~ l is typical of the Udihe ideophones and a few other words.