коум

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Akkala Sami

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The spelling of this entry has been normalized from koum according to the principles established by Wiktionary's editor community as described at Wiktionary:About Akkala Sami or recent spelling standards of the language.
Akkala Sami numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: коум (koum)
    Ordinal: куамат (kuamat)

Etymology

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From Proto-Samic *kolmë, from Proto-Uralic *kolme.

Related to Hungarian három and Finnish kolme. Compare Skolt Sami koumm, Kildin Sami ко̄ллм (kōllm) and Northern Sami golbma.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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коум (koum)

  1. three

Further reading

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  • P. M. Zajkov (1987) G. M. Kert, editor, Бабинский диалект саамского языка (фонолого-морфологическое исследование), Petrozavodsk: Карельский филиал АН СССР; Институт языка, литературы и истории, page 118
  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “kolm”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland