келу

Kazakh

Cyrillic келу (kelw)
Arabic كەلۋ

Etymology

Cognate with Azerbaijani gəlmək, Uzbek kelmoq, etc.

Verb

келу (kelw)

  1. come
  2. arrive

Moksha

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *kojwa. Cognate with Erzya килей (kilej). 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

Declension

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 (keluvonʹ, keluvondi, 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/).

Coordinate terms

Citations

  1. Entry #334 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  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 (kelunʹ, kelundi, 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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