View source for Vuovda (uuttu in Finnish), a birdhouse used by Saami in order to gather eggs

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|artikkeliteksti=<P align="justify"> The Saami traditionally collected waterbird s eggs to supplement their food supplies in early summer. Suitable holes for the birds to nest in were made in hollow trees, or bird boxes were made, for example from the wood of hollow dead pine trees (snags). The suitably sized log was cut from a snag, an entrance hole was made in it and a roof put over it. The bird box was placed on the shore with the entrance hole facing the water in such a way that there was no other bird box with seeing distance. They were mainly used for nesting by goldeneyes, goosanders and smews. The eggs were collected gradually, and one bird box might yield ten or more eggs. The {{Artikkelilinkki|0102|North Saami}} word for such a bird box is <i>vuovda</i>. There are corresponding forms in other Saami languages (e.g. {{Artikkelilinkki|0103|South Saami}} <i>voevte</i> and {{Artikkelilinkki|0108|Skolt Saami}} <i>vuvdd</i>), where they may also mean a hole or cavity in a tree. This is an ancient original Finno-Ugrian word with an equivalent in Khanty which likewise means a cavity in a tree or a waterbird s nesting hole in a tree. Previously it was suggested that the Finnish word <i>onsi</i> crevice, cavity, hollow, empty and its derivatives (e.g. <i>ontelo, onto</i>) as well as related words in the other {{Artikkelilinkki|0123|Baltic-Finnic languages}} were cognates. The Finnish words <i>uu</i> and <i>uuttu</i> bird box have also been linked to the Saami word, or are thought to be loan words from Saami. This relationship is, however, uncertain.</p><BR><BR>
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