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Southern Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Samic *kāltëjō, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *kaldijǭ, which is also the source of Old Norse kelda, Norwegian kjelde, Swedish källa.
Noun
gaaltije
- spring, source
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland