кыэрас

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Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from ki̮ɛras 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 *kërës, from Proto-Finno-Permic *kirɜ.

Related to Finnish kireä (tight; tense), Erzya and Moksha киремс (kirems), compare Northern Sami garas, Skolt Sami kõõrâs and Kildin Sami кэ̄рас (kēras).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

кыэрас (kyeras) (comparative кыэрсап)

  1. firm, hard

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 114
  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “kɵr”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland