тоарра

Ter Sami

Etymology

Proto-Samic *toarō, from Proto-Uralic *torɜ. Cognates include Finnish torua, Northern Sami doarru and Kildin Sami туарр (tuarr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to̯arːa/

Noun

тоарра

1. war
   • 1961, G. M. Kert, “Чальмны-Варрэ: ki̮sʹsʹe Norvegiesʹt˙”, in P. A. Ariste, V. Z. Panfilov, K. K. Kont, editors, Образцы саамской речи [Samples of the Sami speech]:

     Сӹй нытшэ кохт мӹй ев тувод то̄аррэ.

     Sӹj nytše koxt mӹj ’ev tuvod tōarre.

     They, just like us, do not want war.

     (Note: The spelling has been normalised.)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• G. M. Kert (1961) P. A. Ariste, V. Z. Panfilov, K. K. Kont, editors, Образцы саамской речи [Samples of the Sami speech], Ленинград: Издательство академии наук СССР, page 170
• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “tȯarra”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland