vuovttat

Northern Sami

Etymology

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Noun

vuovttat

  1. hair (covering the human head)

Inflection
Even a-stem, kt-vtt gradation
Nominative vuovttat
Genitive vuovttaid
Singular Plural
Nominative — vuovttat
Accusative — vuovttaid
Genitive — vuovttaid
Illative — vuovttaide
Locative — vuovttain
Comitative — vuovttaiguin
Essive vuoktan
Possessive forms
Singular Dual Plural
1st person vuoktan vuoktame vuoktamet
2nd person vuoktat vuoktade vuoktadet
3rd person vuoktas vuoktaska vuoktaset

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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