муаһть

Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from mŭăh˙t˙ according to the principles established by Wiktionary's editor community as described at Wiktionary:About Akkala Sami or recent spelling standards of the language.

Alternative forms

  • муоһт (muoht)
  • муaһт (muaht)

Etymology

Likely from Proto-Samic *muotō, although it is unclear where the palatalization came from. According to other sources and cognates from other Sami languages, the form **муоһт/**муаһт is expected.

Pronunciation

Noun

муаһть (muaht’)

  1. face
    • 1987, P. M. Zajkov, edited by G. M. Kert, Бабинский диалект саамского языка (фонолого-морфологическое исследование) [Babin dialect of the Sami language] (overall work in Russian), Petrozavodsk: Карельский филиал АН СССР; Институт языка, литературы и истории, page 182:
      nu͔tt ĺiča si̮st / viĺkiś ārr mŭăh˙t˙ ti̮go ōṷmi̮š
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Inflection

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Further reading

  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “mot”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
  • T. I. Itkonen (1958) “A (G) †mot, (k.-n.) muod, (E.) †muot”, in Koltan- ja kuolanlapin sanakirja [Skolt and Kola Sami dictionary]‎[2], Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, published 2011, →ISBN, page 266
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