юммель

Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from juḿḿeĺ 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

Borrowed from a Finnic language, ultimately from Proto-Finnic *jumala.

Related to Finnish jumala. Compare Northern Sami ipmil and Kildin Sami ӣммель (jimm’el’)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈjumʲːɛʎ/, [ˈjumʲːe̞ʎ]

Noun

юммель (jumm’el’)

1. god

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “jummel”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
• 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 156