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Akkala Sami
The spelling of this entry has been normalized from ki̮skas 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 *kësŋës (“juniper”).
Compare Skolt Sami kõõskâs, Kildin Sami кэ̄скас (kēskas) and Northern Sami gaskkas.
Pronunciation
Noun
кыскас (kyskas)
- heather
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 86
- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “kõskes”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland