вуалльк

Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from vŭăl̄́k according to the principles established by Wiktionary's editor community as described at Wiktionary:About Akkala Sami or recent spelling standards of the language.

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *oalkē, from Proto-Uralic *wolka.

Related to Hungarian váll and Finnish olka. Compare Skolt Sami vuäʹlǧǧ, Kildin Sami вуэлльк (vuell’k) and Northern Sami oalgi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvu̯ɑʎːk/, [ˈvŭ̯ɑ̆ʎːk]

Noun

вуалльк (vuall’k)

1. shoulder

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• P. M. Zajkov (1987) G. M. Kert, editor, Бабинский диалект саамского языка (фонолого-морфологическое исследование) [Babin dialect of the Sami language], Petrozavodsk: Карельский филиал АН СССР; Институт языка, литературы и истории, page 40
• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “oᵢlgi”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland