Pite Sami

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Etymology

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Cognates include Northern Sami baste.

Noun

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bissti

  1. spoon

Inflection

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Even i-stem, sst-st gradation
Nominative bissti
Genitive bisti
Singular Plural
Nominative bissti bisti
Accusative bistiv bistijt
Genitive bisti bistij
Illative bisstij bistijda
Inessive bistin bistijn
Elative bistist
bistis
bistijst
bistijs
Comitative bistijn bistij
Essive bisstin

Further reading

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  • bissti in Bidumsáme Báhkogirrje (Pite Sami word list)
  • 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
  • Joshua Wilbur (2014) A grammar of Pite Saami, Berlin: Language Science Press