fáŋgal

Northern Sami

Etymology

From a North Germanic language, compare Swedish fängelse, Norwegian Bokmål fengsel, Norwegian Nynorsk fengsel.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈfaːŋːkal/

Noun

fáŋgal

1. prison

Inflection

Odd, no gradation
Nominative	fáŋgal
Genitive	fáŋgala
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fáŋgal	fáŋgalat
Accusative	fáŋgala	fáŋgaliid
Genitive	fáŋgala	fáŋgaliid
Illative	fáŋgalii	fáŋgaliidda
Locative	fáŋgalis	fáŋgaliin
Comitative	fáŋgaliin	fáŋgaliiguin
Essive	fáŋgalin
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person fáŋgalan fáŋgaleamẹ fáŋgaleamẹt 2nd person fáŋgalat fáŋgaleattẹ fáŋgaleattẹt 3rd person fáŋgalis fáŋgaleaskkạ fáŋgaleasẹt

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