Akkala Sami edit

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from kahc according to the principles established by Wiktionary's editor community as described at Wiktionary:About Akkala Sami or recent spelling standards of the language.
Akkala Sami numbers (edit)
 ←  7 8 9  → 
    Cardinal: каһц (kahc)
    Ordinal: каѵцинт (kawcint)

Etymology edit

From Proto-Samic *kākcē, from Proto-Uralic *kakteksa.

Related to Finnish kahdeksan, compare Skolt Sami kääuʹc, Kildin Sami ка̄ххц (kāxxc) and Northern Sami gávcci.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

каһц (kahc)

  1. eight

Further reading edit

  • 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 71
  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “kahts”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland