сиѵнись

Akkala Sami

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from siṷńiś 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 *seavńē.

Compare Skolt Sami seuʹŋŋes, Kildin Sami се̄ввьнэсь (sjēvv’nes’) and Northern Sami sēvdnjes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʲiwɲisʲ/

Adjective

сиѵнись (siwnis’) (comparative сиуняп)

1. dark

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