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Akkala Sami
The spelling of this entry has been normalized from sāḿ 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 *sāmē, from earlier *sämä.
Related to Finnish suomi (“the Finnish language”), compare Skolt Sami sääʹmm, Kildin Sami са̄ммь (sāmm’) and Northern Sami sápmi.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
са̄мь (sām’)
- Sami
Further reading
- P. M. Zajkov (1987) G. M. Kert, editor, Бабинский диалект саамского языка (фонолого-морфологическое исследование), Petrozavodsk: Карельский филиал АН СССР; Институт языка, литературы и истории, page 120
- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “sam-”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland