čiâss

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Skolt Sami

Etymology

From Russian час (čas) 'hour' and Russian часы (časy) 'clock'.[1]

Noun

čiâss

  1. hour
  2. clock

Inflection

Even â-stem, sˈs-ss gradation
Nominative čiâsˈs
Genitive čiâss
Singular Plural
Nominative čiâsˈs čiâss
Accusative čiâss čiâssid
Genitive čiâss čiâssi
Illative čieʹsˈse čiâssid
Locative čiâssâst čiâssin
Comitative čiâssin čiâssivuiʹm
Abessive čiâsstää čiâssitää
Essive čiâsˈsân
Partitive čiâsˈsâd
Possessive forms
Singular Dual Plural
1st person — — —
2nd person — — —
3rd person — — —

References

  1. ^ Juutinen, Markus. 2022. “Russian Loanwords in Skolt Saami”. Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 2022 (67):75–126. https://doi.org/10.33339/fuf.110737.

Further reading

Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

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