шэ̄мерь

Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from šɛ̄ḿeŕ 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

From Proto-Samic *šëmērē, from Proto-Finnic *hamara.

Related to Finnish hamara. Compare Skolt Sami šâʹmmer, Kildin Sami шаммерь (šamm’er’) and Northern Sami šimir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛːmʲerʲ/, [ˈʃɛːmʲe̞rʲ]

Noun

шэ̄мерь (šēm’er’)

1. blunt part of an axe, butt

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• 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 67