veaittalas

Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *veajttëlës.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈvea̯jttalas/

Adjective

veaittalas (not comparable)

1. free, unshepherded (of animals)

Inflection

This adjective is used only attributively, and has no case forms.

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