Reconstruction:Proto-Samic/ājlēs

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This Proto-Samic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Samic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Proto-Norse [script needed] (*hailan-) (whence Old Norse heili), from Proto-Germanic [Term?].[1]

Noun[edit]

*ājlēs

  1. brain

Inflection[edit]

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants[edit]

  • Western Samic:
    • Southern Sami: aajla
    • Pite Sami: ájjlá
  • Eastern Samic:
    • Akkala Sami: [script needed] (aili̮s)

Further reading[edit]

  • 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

References[edit]

  1. ^ Piha, Minerva. 2019. “Combining Proto-Scandinavian Loanword Strata in South Saami With the Early Iron Age Archaeological Material of Jämtland and Dalarna, Sweden”. Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 2018 (64):118–233.