вуаррев

Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from vŭăŕŕev 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 *oarēvē, from Proto-Uralic *ora.

Related to Finnish orava. Compare Skolt Sami vuäʹrˈrev, Kildin Sami вуэррев (vuerrjev) and Northern Sami oarˈri.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvu̯ɑrʲːɛv/, [ˈvŭ̯ɑ̆rʲːe̞v]

Noun

вуаррев (vuarr’ev)

1. squirrel

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