Reconstruction:Proto-Samic/oalulëš

Proto-Samic

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *oalōl, from Proto-Uralic *ola.

Noun

*oalulëš

1. jaw

Inflection

Even
Nominative	*oalul̯ëš
Genitive	*oalul̯ëšn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*oalul̯ëš	*oalul̯ëšk
Accusative	*oalul̯ëšm	*oalul̯ëšjtē
Partitive	*oalul̯ëštē
Genitive	*oalul̯ëšn	*oalul̯ëšj
Essive	*oalul̯ëšnē	*oalul̯ëšjnē
Inessive	*oalul̯ëšsnē
Elative	*oalul̯ëšstē	*oalul̯ëšjstē
Illative	*oalul̯ëš̯s̯ën	—
Comitative	*oalul̯ëšjnē *oalul̯ëšjnë	—
Abessive	*oalul̯ëšptāk̯ëk	—

Descendants

• Eastern Samic:
  • Skolt Sami: vuålˈlõš, vuålˈl’lõš
  • Akkala Sami: vallaš
  • Kildin Sami: вуаллнешш (vuallnješš), вуаллаш (vuallaš)

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
• Ante Aikio (2020) Uralic Etymological Dictionary (draft)‎^[2]