нелль

Akkala Sami

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Cardinal: нелль (njell’)     Ordinal: няллят (njall’at)

Alternative forms

• нель (njel’)

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *nealjē, from Proto-Uralic *neljä.

Related to Hungarian négy and Finnish neljä. Compare Skolt Sami nellj, Kildin Sami не̄лльй (niell’j) and Northern Sami njeallje.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɲɛʎː/, [ˈɲe̞ʎː]

Numeral

нелль (njell’)

1. four

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 118
• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “ńeĺ”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland