пуэррь

Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from pŭɛ̆ŕŕ 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 *puorë. Compare Skolt Sami pueʹrr, Kildin Sami пӯррь (pūrr’) and Northern Sami buorrẹ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu̯ɛrʲː/

Adjective

пуэррь (puerr’) (comparative пуэрямп, superlative пуэрьмус)

1. good

   Synonym: шӣг (šīg)

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 150
• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “poᵢr”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland