пуадз

Akkala Sami

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

Пуадз вӓннҍц.

Alternative forms

• поадз (poadz)

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *poacōj, from Proto-Uralic *počaw, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *páću, from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu (“cattle”).

Related to Western Mari пӱчӧ (püčö). Compare Skolt Sami puäʒʒ, Kildin Sami пуаз (puaz) and Northern Sami boazu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu̯ɑd͡z/

Noun

пуадз (puadz)

1. reindeer

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, pages 49, 24
• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “pottso”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland