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Eurasiatic: *ńä[w(ŋ)]a [cf. *ŋVjV]
Meaning: hair
Borean: Borean
Altaic: *nŭ́ŋu
Uralic: *niwa (*niŋa) 'enthaaren'; *ńǟwa 'hair, down' (SKES 364)
Comments: Cf. *nVwrV.
References: МССНЯ 354, ОСНЯ 2, 87-88; ND 1554 *ǹiŋu 'hair (of animals)' (Alt.-Ur. + SDr. *niṇ- 'string, wick'); 1630 *ńäwGa 'hair, down' (Ur. + Drav. + Jibb.?). Perhaps indeed two roots (if Ural. has two).
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