кыэрас

Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from ki̮ɛras 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 *kërës, from Proto-Finno-Permic *kirɜ.

Related to Finnish kireä (“tight; tense”), Erzya and Moksha киремс (kirems), compare Northern Sami garas, Skolt Sami kõõrâs and Kildin Sami кэ̄рас (kēras).

Adjective

кыэрас (kyeras) (comparative кыэрсап)

1. firm, hard

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 114
• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “kɵr”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland