beallji

Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *pealjē, from Proto-Uralic *peljä.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpea̯ʎːʎiː/

Noun

beallji

1. ear

Inflection

Even i-stem, llj-lj gradation
Nominative	beallji
Genitive	bealji bealjẹ
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	beallji	bealjit
Accusative	bealji	bēljiid
Genitive	bealji bealjẹ	bēljiid
Illative	bealljái	bēljiide
Locative	bealjis	bēljiin
Comitative	bēljiin	bēljiiguin
Essive	bealljin
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person beallján bealljáme bealljámet 2nd person beallját bealljáde bealljádet 3rd person bealljis bealljiska bealljiset

Derived terms

• bealjeheapme
• bealljái

Further reading

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