йиӈӈ

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Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from jiŋŋ according to the principles established by Wiktionary's editor community as described at Wiktionary:About Akkala Sami or recent spelling standards of the language.

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *jieŋë, from Proto-Uralic *jäŋe.

Related to Hungarian jég and Finnish jää. Compare Skolt Sami jiõŋŋ, Kildin Sami ӣӈӈ (jiŋŋ) and Northern Sami jiekŋa.

Pronunciation

Noun

йиӈӈ (jiŋŋ)

  1. ice

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

  • P. M. Zajkov (1987) G. M. Kert, editor, Бабинский диалект саамского языка (фонолого-морфологическое исследование) [Babin dialect of the Sami language], Petrozavodsk: Карельский филиал АН СССР; Институт языка, литературы и истории, page 67