sohkar

Northern Sami

Etymology

From a Scandinavian language, either Norwegian sukker or Swedish socker.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈsohkar/

Noun

sohkar

1. sugar

Inflection

Odd, hkk-hk gradation
Nominative	sohkar
Genitive	sohkkara
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sohkar	sohkkarat
Accusative	sohkkara	sohkkariid
Genitive	sohkkara	sohkkariid
Illative	sohkkarii	sohkkariidda
Locative	sohkkaris	sohkkariin
Comitative	sohkkariin	sohkkariiguin
Essive	sohkarin
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person sohkkaran sohkkareamẹ sohkkareamẹt 2nd person sohkkarat sohkkareattẹ sohkkareattẹt 3rd person sohkkaris sohkkareaskkạ sohkkareasẹt

Further reading

• 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