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Akkala Sami
Etymology
Somehow connected to Old Norse igða (“small bird”), either from Proto-Germanic *ewwadjǭ or from a common North Germanic/Scandinavian substrate. Compare Old Norse æðr (“elderduck”) and Proto-Samic *(h)āvtë.
Noun
avigʒinê
- A chickadee.
Further reading
- Guus Kroonen (2013) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN