йиӈӈ

Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from jiŋŋ 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 *jieŋë, from Proto-Uralic *jäŋe.

Related to Hungarian jég and Finnish jää. Compare Skolt Sami jiõŋŋ, Kildin Sami ӣӈӈ (jiŋŋ) and Northern Sami jiekŋa.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈjiŋː/

Noun

йиӈӈ (jiŋŋ)

ice

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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