várri

Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *vārē.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈvaːrriː/

Noun

várri

1. mountain

Inflection

Even i-stem, rr-r gradation
Nominative	várri
Genitive	vári várẹ
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	várri	várit
Accusative	vári	váriid
Genitive	vári várẹ	váriid
Illative	várrái	váriide
Locative	váris	váriin
Comitative	váriin	váriiguin
Essive	várrin
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person várrán várráme várrámet 2nd person várrát várráde várrádet 3rd person várris várriska várriset

Derived terms

• dollavárri

Descendants

• → Finnish: vaara
• Norwegian Bokmål: varre

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
• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN

Old Norse

Determiner

várri

1. feminine dative singular of várr