са̄мь

Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from sāḿ 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 *sāmē, from earlier *sämä.

Related to Finnish suomi (“the Finnish language”), compare Skolt Sami sääʹmm, Kildin Sami са̄ммь (sāmm’) and Northern Sami sápmi.

Adjective

са̄мь (sām’)

1. Sami

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 120
• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “sam-”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland