veaksi

Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *veapsē.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

veaksi

1. fin (of a fish)

Inflection

Even i-stem, ks-vss gradation
Nominative	veaksi
Genitive	veavssi veavssẹ
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	veaksi	veavssit
Accusative	veavssi	vēvssiid
Genitive	veavssi veavssẹ	vēvssiid
Illative	veaksái	vēvssiide
Locative	veavssis	vēvssiin
Comitative	vēvssiin	vēvssiiguin
Essive	veaksin
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person veaksán veaksáme veaksámet 2nd person veaksát veaksáde veaksádet 3rd person veaksis veaksiska veaksiset

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