кы̄нял
Appearance
Akkala Sami
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The spelling of this entry has been normalized from kī̮ńaл 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
[edit]From Proto-Samic *këńël, from Proto-Uralic *küńele.
Related to Finnish kyynel. Compare Skolt Sami kõõnjâl, Kildin Sami кэ̄нял (kēnjal) and Northern Sami ganjal.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]кы̄нял (kȳnjal)
- tear (of the eyes)
Inflection
[edit]This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
[edit]- 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 67