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Kildin Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Samic *-jē. Cognate with Finnish -ja.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-эй (-ej)
- Forms agent nouns from verbs.
- а̄ннэ (ānne, “to ask”) + -эй (-ej) → а̄ннэй (ānnej, “the one who asks”)
Inflection
This suffix needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
Further reading
- A. A. Antonova (2014) “22”, in A.M. Agejeva, S.N. Galkin, D.M. Homyuk, E. Sheller, editors, Саамско-русский словарь [Sámi-Russian dictionary], Мурманский областной центр коренных малочисленных народов севера, →ISBN