beallji

Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *pealjē, from Proto-Uralic *peljä.

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈpea̯ʎːʎiː/

Noun

beallji

  1. ear

Inflection

Even i-stem, llj-lj gradation
Nominative beallji
Genitive bealji
bealjẹ
Singular Plural
Nominative beallji bealjit
Accusative bealji bēljiid
Genitive bealji
bealjẹ
bēljiid
Illative bealljái bēljiide
Locative bealjis bēljiin
Comitative bēljiin bēljiiguin
Essive bealljin
Possessive forms
Singular Dual Plural
1st person beallján bealljáme bealljámet
2nd person beallját bealljáde bealljádet
3rd person bealljis bealljiska bealljiset

Derived terms

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