нэззан

Akkala Sami

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

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *nisōn. Compare Skolt Sami neezzan, Kildin Sami нызан (nyzan) and Northern Sami nisu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛzːɑn/

Noun

нэззан (nezzan)

1. woman

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 67
• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “niezan”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland