Akkala Sami

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

Etymology

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From Proto-Samic *monē, from Proto-Uralic *muna.

Related to Hungarian mony and Finnish muna. Compare Skolt Sami mââʹnn, Kildin Sami маннҍ (mann’) and Northern Sami monni.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛnʲː/, [ˈmɛ̃nʲː]

Noun

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мэннҍ (menn’)

  1. egg

Inflection

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This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

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  • 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 29
  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “mann”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland