bissti

Pite Sami

Etymology

Cognates include Northern Sami baste.

Noun

bissti

1. spoon

Inflection

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

• 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