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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’)
- 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