куввт

Akkala Sami

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

Куввт.

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *kuovtē.

Compare Skolt Sami kuʹvdd, Kildin Sami кӯввьт (kūvv’t) and Northern Sami guovdi (“dragon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuvːt/, [ˈkuʋːt]

Noun

куввт (kuvvt)

1. snake

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 71
• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “kūvt”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland