beaivi

Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *peajvē, from Proto-Uralic *päjwä.

Pronunciation
  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈpea̯jːviː/

Noun

beaivi

  1. day
  2. sun

Inflection
Even i-stem, iv-ivv gradation
Nominative beaivi
Genitive beaivvi
beaivvẹ
Singular Plural
Nominative beaivi beaivvit
Accusative beaivvi bēivviid
Genitive beaivvi
beaivvẹ		 bēivviid
Illative beaivái bēivviide
Locative beaivvis bēivviin
Comitative bēivviin bēivviiguin
Essive beaivin
Possessive forms
Singular Dual Plural
1st person beaiván beaiváme beaivámet
2nd person beaivát beaiváde beaivádet
3rd person beaivis beaiviska beaiviset

Derived terms

Further reading
  • Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
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