иһкь

Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from ih́ḱ 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 *jëkē, from Proto-Uralic *ikä.

Related to Hungarian év, compare Skolt Sami eeʹǩǩ, Kildin Sami ыгкь (ygk’) and Northern Sami jahki.

Noun

иһкь (ihk’)

1. year

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 48
• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “ek”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland