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Akkala Sami
The spelling of this entry has been normalized from kī̮ńaл 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 *këńël, from Proto-Uralic *küńele.
Related to Finnish kyynel. Compare Skolt Sami kõõnjâl, Kildin Sami кэ̄нял (kēnjal) and Northern Sami ganjal.
Pronunciation
Noun
кы̄нял (kȳnjal)
- tear (of the eyes)
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