куввт

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Akkala Sami

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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

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From Proto-Samic *kuovtē.

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkuvːt/, [ˈkuʋːt]

Noun

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куввт (kuvvt)

  1. snake

Inflection

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This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

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  • 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