юммель

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Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from juḿḿeĺ 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

Borrowed from a Finnic language, ultimately from Proto-Finnic *jumala.

Related to Finnish jumala. Compare Northern Sami ipmil and Kildin Sami ӣммель (jimmjel’)

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈjumʲːɛʎ/,

Noun

юммель (jumm’el’)

  1. god

Further reading

  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “jummel”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
  • 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 156