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|sivun nimi=Siida, Saami village
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|id=0741
|artikkeliteksti=<P align="justify"> The North Saami word <i>siida</i> Lapp village, reindeer-herding community has corresponding forms in all the Saami languages (South Saami <i>sïjte</i>, Inari Saami <i>sijdâ</i>). The word and the social organization that it designates date back at least to Proto-Saami times. These Lapp villages were Saami communities which had common sources of livelihood and common usufruct territories. In older times, the main form of activity of the <i>siida</i> may have been the capture of wild reindeer (<i>{{Artikkelilinkki|0829|goddi}}</i>). With the development of reindeer husbandry, in the western Saami languages the word took on the meaning reindeer-herding community together with its grazing lands, reindeer and camping places . In the eastern Saami languages, the word meant a village community, a winter village . Despite both phonetic and semantic problems, it is considered possible that the Saami <i>siida</i> is of the same origin as the Finnish <i>hiisi</i> a sacred wood, sacrificial grove, burial site; a forest spirit and derived from an Early Proto-Finnic form <i>* ijti</i>. Particularly if we can also relate the Saami word <i>{{Artikkelilinkki|1011|sieidi}}</i> to these, the different meanings could perhaps be explained by assuming that the original word meant both a village community together with its usufruct territory (<i>siida</i>) and a natural formation existing on this territory which the community used as a place of sacrifice and/or a totem (<i>sieidi</i>, Finnish <i>hiisi</i>).</p>
<P align="justify"> It has also been suggested that the word family represented by the Finnish hiisi and the Saami siida was borrowed from a Proto-Germanic source <i>*sÌ&#273;Ün-</i> side or from some other subsequently lost word belonging to the same word family. (The common root <i>*sei- ~ *soi</i> of this Germanic word family may also be related to the Old Norwegian word seið, which was mentioned in connection with <i>sieidi</i>.)</P>
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