Khanty vot vokhty asking-for-wind whirler (Kazym)

вот вохты (Kazym); пэрхэттэх (Salym); пухлы (Vakh-Vasyugan); коркимох (Surgut)

Source term: жужжалка: вихревая (пропеллер) и вращаемая ("buzzer: whirring [propeller] and swung")

вот вохты (vot vokhty, Kazym) = "to ask for wind"

Etymology. вот вохты (vot vokhty): Kazym Khanty вот "wind" (cognate with Mansi вōт of the wind-calling flying board) + вохты "to ask": "to ask for wind."

On the Kazym River, the Khanty called the whirler vot vokhty—“to ask for wind.” A blade circling on its line turned that request into sound. By the time the name was recorded, the weather-maker survived chiefly as a children’s toy.

2 разновидности жужжалки, вихревая (пропеллер) и вращаемая, имеют одно название... вот вохты («ветер просить»).

Two varieties of the buzzer — a whirring propeller and a swung one — bear a single name... vot vokhty ("to ask for wind").

«Музыка хантов», Arctic Megapedia (Sheikin school), archived copy, 2019-03-09

Particulars

Object

A blade swung on a line to produce a whirring sound.

Function

Wind-summoning sound instrument, later chiefly a children’s toy; its Kazym name means “to ask for wind.”