Kildin Sami

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Etymology

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From Proto-Samic *ëvē, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *üwä. Form эввь expected.

Cognate with Northern Sami avvi.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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эвв (evv)

  1. belt

Further reading

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  • G. M. Kert (1986) V. V. Vinokurova, E. N. Samojlova, editors, Словарь саамско-русский и русско-саамский [Sámi-Russian and Russian-Sámi dictionary], Ленинград: Просвещение
  • A. Antonova, E. Sheller (2021) “эвв”, in Саамско-русский и Русско-саамский словарь [Sami-Russian and Russian-Sami dictionary], Tromsø: UiT The Arctic University of Norway