киэссь

Akkala Sami

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

Alternative forms

• к̌иэссь (ǩiess’)

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *keasē, from Proto-Uralic *kesä.

Related to Finnish kesä. Compare Skolt Sami ǩiẹʹss, Kildin Sami ке̄ссь (kiess’) and Northern Sami geassi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʲi̯ɛsʲː/

Noun

киэссь (kiess’)

1. summer

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

See also

Seasons in Akkala Sami · [Term?] (layout · text) · category
кидд (kidd, “spring”)	киэссь (kiess’, “summer”)	чоххч (čoxxč, “autumn”)	талльв (tall’v, “winter”)

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 15, 68
• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “kess”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland