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Akkala Sami
The spelling of this entry has been normalized from kaj̄m 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 *kājmē, borrowed from Proto-Finnic *kaima.
Related to Finnish kaima. Cognate with Skolt Sami käiʹmm, Kildin Sami ка̄ййм (kājjm), Northern Sami gáibmi.
Pronunciation
Noun
каййм (kajjm)
- namesake (person with the same name as another)
Inflection
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Further reading
- P. M. Zajkov (1987) “kaj̄m-kājm”, in 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 132