няльгись

Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from ńaĺgiś 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 *ńālkēs (predicative of *ńālkē).

Compare Skolt Sami njääʹljes, Kildin Sami ня̄лькесь (neal’kjes’) and Northern Sami njálggis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɲɑʎɡʲisʲ/

Adjective

няльгись (njal’gis’) (superlative нялгсэмус)

1. tasty

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 56