киһк

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Akkala Sami[edit]

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from kihk according to the principles established by Wiktionary's editor community as described at Wiktionary:About Akkala Sami or recent spelling standards of the language.
Киһк.

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Samic *kiekë, either a Baltic loanword or an onomatopoeia.

Related to Finnish käki. Compare Skolt Sami ǩiõkk, Kildin Sami кӣгк (kīgk) and Northern Sami giehka.

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

киһк (kihk)

  1. cuckoo

Inflection[edit]

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Further reading[edit]

  • 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 79