чаһппат

Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from čahppat 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 *čeapēttē, from Proto-Uralic *śepä.

Related to Finnish sepä, compare Skolt Sami čeäppat, Kildin Sami ча̄пат (čāpat) and Northern Sami čeabet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑhpːɑt/

Noun

чаһппат (čahppat)

1. neck

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 66