нимме

Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from nĩḿḿe 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

Likely from Proto-Samic *ńëmëtēk, although replacing of initial *ń to n is uncertain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nʲimʲːɛ/, [nʲĩmʲːe̞]

Verb

нимме (nimm’e)

1. to suck

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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 29