gaaltije

Southern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *kāltëjō, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *kaldijǭ, which is also the source of Old Norse kelda, Norwegian kjelde, Swedish källa.

Noun

gaaltije

  1. spring, source

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

  • Eino Koponen, Klaas Ruppel, Kirsti Aapala, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
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