ка̄й

Kildin Sami

Alternative forms

• кайе (kajje) (obsolete)

Etymology

From earlier кайе (kajje), from Proto-Samic *kājēkē, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kaja.

Related to Finnish kajava. Cognates include Northern Sami gádjit and Skolt Sami kaaʹjji.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːj/

Noun

ка̄й (kāj)

1. black-headed gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus
2. european herring gull, Larus argentatus

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

See also

• ассвушш (assvušš)
• ча̄бар (čābar)

Further reading

• T. I. Itkonen (1958) “kāi̭jė”, in Koltan- ja kuolanlapin sanakirja [Skolt and Kola Sami dictionary]‎^[1], Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, published 2011, →ISBN, page 81
• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “kāi̭jė”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[2], 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) “ка̄й”, in R. D. Kuruch, editor, Саамско-русский словарь (кильдинский диалект) [Sámi-Russian dictionary (Kildin dialect)]‎^[3], Русский язык, page 96
• A. Antonova, E. Sheller (2021) “ка̄й”, in Саамско-русский и Русско-саамский словарь [Sami-Russian and Russian-Sami dictionary], Tromsø: UiT The Arctic University of Norway