Ptarmigan

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The willow grouse (Lagopus lagopus) is an important hunting quarry for the Saami. It is known all over the western Saami area by the name rievssat (South Saami riëksege or riëseh, etc.). Also related are the Inari Saami riävská and the recorded form riusag of the now extinct Kuolajärvi dialect, but elsewhere in eastern Saami languages the bird is given a different name (e.g. Skolt repp, etc.), which closely resembles the Norwegian rype and the Swedish ripa, which are used to refer to the same bird.

Particularly in older writings, the Saami word rievssat was compared to the Finnish word for the same bird: riekko. The Finnish word is thought to be of onomatopoeic origin, based on the call of the bird (cf. Finnish riek(k)ua to rage, scream ), and one can make a similar conjecture about the Saami word. It is not impossible that the element riek-, which is common to both the Saami and the Finnish words, is descended from a shared origin, or that there has been borrowing in either direction. But it is also quite feasible that the words were created in both languages independently through onomatopoeia. According to the most regular sound changes, the stem of the Saami word rievssat would be reconstructed in Early Proto-Finnic as *räksi-, and from this stem one could also derive the Estonian (rukki)rääks corncrake .

Guovssat.

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