аллькэ

Kildin Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *ālkētēk, compare Northern Sami álgit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalʲːkɛ/

Verb

аллькэ (all’ke)

1. to begin, to start
   • 2021, A. M. Sapelnikova, “Та̄л А̄ка”, in Голос Севера (приложение) [Voice of the North (appendix)], St Petersburg: Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, page 275:

     Элькэ со̄нн е̄лле пэҏт луннҍ.

     El’ke sōnn jēllje per̥t lunn’.

     He started to live near the cabin.

2. (auxilary) Used to form the future tense

   Мунн алка вуэдтӭ

   Munn alka vuedt’e

   I will go to sleep

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “à͕l̜̄ᵍk͕eᵟ”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
• N. E. Afanasjeva with R. D. Kuruch, E. I. Mechkina, A. A. Antonova, L. D. Jakovlev, B. A. Gluhov (1985) R. D. Kuruch, editor, Саамско-русский словарь (кильдинский диалект) [Sámi-Russian dictionary (Kildin dialect)]‎^[2], Русский язык, page 24