пуввл

Kildin Sami

Alternative forms

• пӯллв (pūllv)
• пӯввл (pūvvl)

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *puolvë, from Proto-Uralic *polwe. Cognates include Northern Sami buolva, Finnish and Karelian polvi and Tundra Nenets пулы (puli).

Noun

пуввл (puvvl)

1. knee

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
• T. I. Itkonen (1958) “pùṷ̄л”, in Koltan- ja kuolanlapin sanakirja [Skolt and Kola Sami dictionary]‎^[2], Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, published 2011, →ISBN, page 408