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Akkala Sami
The spelling of this entry has been normalized from kuaлmat 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 *koalmāntë, from Proto-Uralic *kolmamte.
Related to Finnish kolmas. Compare Skolt Sami kuälmad, Kildin Sami куаллмант (kuallmant) and Northern Sami goalmmát.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈku̯amat ~ ˈko̯ɑmɑt/
Adjective
куамат (kuamat)
- third
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 40
- G. M. Kert (1973) “kuaлmat”, in “Некоторые морфологические особенности бабинского диалекта саамского языка [Some morphological features of the Babin dialect of the Sami language]”, in Commentationes fenno-ugricae, Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilaisen seura, page 162