ӓһкь

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Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from a͕h́ḱ 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 *ākkē.

Related to Northern Sami áhkká, which along with other Western Sami languages derived from similar form *ākkā.

Cognates also include Skolt Sami äʹǩǩ and Kildin Sami а̄һкь (āhk’)

Pronunciation

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Noun

ӓһкь (ähk’)

  1. old woman

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 33