Sakha isiirer swung hummer

исиирэр (вар. эртйэр)

Source term: гуделка / вращаемый гудящий свободный аэрофон

исиирэр, from an onomatopoeic hiss-whistle root; эртйэр is a variant name. суугунуур, among the buzzers, is from суугун, 'rustle, light noise.'

Among the Sakha of central Yakutia, the isiirer was the droning member of a family of whirring toys. Unlike button-like buzzers spun on twisted cords, its blade was swung in a full circle on a line. Made quickly from materials at hand, such sound-tools belonged beside the cracking herdsman’s whip and whistling willow switch, then were discarded after use.

…гуделка исиирэр, пластинчатые варганы мас хомус … и жужжалки иэрэгэй, кююгюнююр, суугунуур.

…the isiirer hummer, the plate jaw-harps mas khomus … and the buzzers ieregey, kyugyunyur, suugunuur.

Dyakonova 2019:34 (Традиционная культура 20/4)

Particulars

Object

Blade swung full-circle on a line to produce a drone.

Function

Children’s droning sound-tool within living memory.