ыгкь

Kildin Sami

Alternative forms

• (dialectal) эгкь (egk’)

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *jëkē, from Proto-Uralic *ikä.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɨɡʲkʲ/

Noun

ыгкь (ygk’)

1. year

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “ėɢ͕́k͕ᴱ”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
• N. E. Afanasjeva with R. D. Kuruch, E. I. Mechkina, A. A. Antonova, L. D. Jakovlev, B. A. Gluhov (1985) R. D. Kuruch, editor, Саамско-русский словарь (кильдинский диалект) [Sámi-Russian dictionary (Kildin dialect)]‎^[2], Русский язык, page 418
• A. Antonova, E. Sheller (2021) “ыгкь”, in Саамско-русский и Русско-саамский словарь [Sami-Russian and Russian-Sami dictionary], Tromsø: UiT The Arctic University of Norway