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<P align="justify"> The willow grous … <P align="justify"> 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 <i>rievssat</i> ([[South Saami language|South Saami]] <i>riëksege</i> or <i>riëseh</i>, etc.). Also related are the Inari Saami <i>riävská</i> and the recorded form <i>riusag</i> of the now extinct Kuolajärvi dialect, but elsewhere in eastern Saami languages the bird is given a different name (e.g. Skolt <i>repp</i>, etc.), which closely resembles the Norwegian <i>rype</i> and the Swedish <i>ripa</i>, which are used to refer to the same bird.</p>
<P align="justify"> Particularly in older writings, the Saami word <i>rievssat</i> was compared to the Finnish word for the same bird: <i>riekko</i>. The Finnish word is thought to be of onomatopoeic origin, based on the call of the bird (cf. Finnish <i>riek(k)ua</i> to rage, scream ), and one can make a similar conjecture about the Saami word. It is not impossible that the element <i>riek-</i>, 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 <i>rievssat</i> would be reconstructed in Early Proto-Finnic as <i>*räksi-</i>, and from this stem one could also derive the Estonian <i>(rukki)rääks</i> corncrake .<BR><BR> [[Guovssat (Saami word to a bird species)|Guovssat]].<BR><BR> [[Tiedosto:Riek.saalis.jpg|thumb|600px|Catch of willow grouse]] </p>|600px|Catch of willow grouse]] </p> +
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