вуолас

Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from vuoлas 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 *vuolusë, from Proto-Samic *vuolē, from Proto-Uralic *ëla.

Related to Hungarian al and Finnish ala. Compare Lule Sami vuolus, Kildin Sami вэлас (velas) and Northern Sami vūlos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvu̯oɫɑs/

Adverb

вуолас (vuolas)

1. down, downwards

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 36
• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “oᵢlgi”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland