buallva

Pite Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *puolvë.

Noun

buallva

1. knee; kneecap

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• buallva in Bidumsáme Báhkogirrje (“Pite Sami word list”)
• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland