шэ̄мерь

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Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from šɛ̄ḿeŕ 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 *šëmērē, from Proto-Finnic *hamara.

Related to Finnish hamara. Compare Skolt Sami šâʹmmer, Kildin Sami шаммерь (šammjer’) and Northern Sami šimir.

Pronunciation

Noun

шэ̄мерь (šēm’er’)

  1. blunt part of an axe, butt

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