кы̄нял

Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from kī̮ńaл 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 *këńël, from Proto-Uralic *küńele.

Related to Finnish kyynel. Compare Skolt Sami kõõnjâl, Kildin Sami кэ̄нял (kēnjal) and Northern Sami ganjal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɨːɲɑɫ/

Noun

кы̄нял (kȳnjal)

1. tear (of the eyes)

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, page 67