вуппт

Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from vup̄t 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 *vuoptë, from Proto-Uralic *ëpte.

Cognates include Finnish hapsi, compare Northern Sami vuokta and Skolt Sami vuõptt.

Noun

вуппт (vuppt) (plural вупт)

1. a single hair
2. hair (cover of hair on a human head); head of hair

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• P. M. Zajkov (1987) “vup̄t, vupt”, in 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, pages 109, 182
• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “vuopt”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland