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Akkala Sami
The spelling of this entry has been normalized from ńu͕xčem 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 *ńuokčëm, from Proto-Uralic *ńaŋkće.
Related to Komi-Zyrian нёкчим (ńokćim, “gills”), compare Skolt Sami njuhččâm, Kildin Sami ню̄ххчемь (njūxxčjem’) and Northern Sami njuovčča.
Pronunciation
Noun
нюхчем (njuxč’em)
- tongue
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 31
- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “ńuhtšem”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland