кеаппесь

Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from ḱeaṕṕeś 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 *keappē, from Proto-Uralic *kepä.

Compare Skolt Sami ǩieʹppeed, Kildin Sami ке̄һпесь (kiehpjes’) and Northern Sami geahppat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʲɛ̯ɑpsap/

Adjective

кеаппесь (k’eapp’es’) (comparative кеапсап)

1. light, lightweight

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 138