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|sivun nimi=Áhpi, open treeless swamp
|kieli=englanti
|id=0819
|artikkeliteksti=<P align="justify">There are words corresponding to the North Saami áhpi in different {{Artikkelilinkki|20140721171759|Saami languages}} from South Saami to Skolt. It means both broad swamp and open sea in all except Skolt Saami, where it has only the latter meaning.</p>
<P align="justify"> The word is thought to be a Scandinavian loan word (cf. Old Norwegian haf sea, open sea outside a fjord, Modern Norwegian and Swedish hav sea), although this borrowing has been disputed. The Saami word has also been borrowed by northern Finnish dialects: aapa means both a broad expanse of treeless swampland and a wide reach of open water. The Finnish word aapa has been adopted into international terminology to refer to a northern minerotrophic formation.</p>
<P align="justify"> Some scholars think that the two different meanings of the Saami word are a result of the fact that in the sense of open sea it is a borrowing from Scandinavian languages and in the sense of swamp it is a Finnish loan word.</p>
|kirjoittaja=- Kirsti Aapala KOTUS
|luokat=Nature, etymology
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