ньӓлльмь

Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from ńäl̄́ḿ according to the principles established by Wiktionary's editor community as described at Wiktionary:About Akkala Sami or recent spelling standards of the language.

Alternative forms

• ня̄лҍм (njāljm)

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *ńālmē, from Proto-Uralic *ńälmä. Related to Hungarian nyelv (“language; tongue”) and Hungarian йылме (“language; tongue”).

Compare Skolt Sami njäʹlmm, Kildin Sami ня̄лльм (neall’m) and Northern Sami njálbmi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɲalʲːmʲ/, [ˈɲælʲːmʲ]

Noun

ньӓлльмь (njäll’m’)

1. mouth

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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 30
• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “ńāᵢlm”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland