куҏҏьт

Kildin Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *kurttē (“loon”).

Compare Northern Sami kurtte (“meat from slaughtered animal's neck”) and Lule Sami gurtte (“red-throated loon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kur̥ʲːt/

Noun

куҏҏьт (kur̥r̥’t)

1. (obsolete) neck flesh of a reindeer

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

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