Local Dishes

1. biđus

   Bidos (traditional Sami meat stew, usually reindeer)

   Usage

   Regarded as the best-known Sami dish: small pieces of meat cooked with a little potato and carrot. The pot version is also called biđusruitu

   Grammar Note

   A noun. Mind the letter đ, pronounced like the voiced th in English "this". It is sometimes capitalised (Biđus) in running text

2. bohccobiergu

   Reindeer meat

   Usage

   A traditional staple of the Sami. It is very lean and nutritious; organs such as the heart and liver are eaten too, and the meat is salted, dried or smoked to keep it all year

   Grammar Note

   A compound: bohcco (the compounding stem of boazu "reindeer") + biergu "meat"

3. goikebiergu

   Dried meat

   Usage

   Meat dried for preservation. Reindeer meat is salted, dried or smoked so that it can be eaten all year round

   Grammar Note

   A compound: goike- ("dry") + biergu "meat"

4. goikeguolli

   Dried fish (air-dried, unsalted)

   Usage

   Fish that is air-dried without salt, made mostly from cod (other fish too). Properly stored, it keeps for a long time

   Grammar Note

   A compound: goike- ("dry") + guolli "fish"

5. sálteguolli

   Salted fish

   Usage

   Fish preserved in salt. It is a different product from goikeguolli, which is dried without salt

   Grammar Note

   A compound: sálte- ("salted") + guolli "fish"

6. rággeguolli

   Strip-dried fish (usually salmon or halibut)

   Usage

   A dried fish counted among traditional Sami foods, usually salmon or halibut that has been cut into strips and dried

   Grammar Note

   A compound of rággi "strip" + guolli "fish"; rággi becomes rágge- in the compound

7. luossa

   Salmon

   Usage

   Salmon, a fish of the northern rivers. The compound luossabivdu means "salmon fishing"

   Grammar Note

   A noun. In compounds the stem is used as it is, as in luossabivdu "salmon fishing"

8. dápmot

   Trout (brown trout)

   Usage

   A freshwater trout, the brown trout (Salmo trutta)

   Grammar Note

   A noun naming a kind of fish

9. márfi

   Sausage

   Usage

   A sausage; the word can especially mean blood sausage

   Grammar Note

   A noun. It is also the second part of compounds (varramárfi "blood sausage")

10. varramárfi

    Blood sausage

    Usage

    A sausage made from animal blood

    Grammar Note

    A compound: varra ("blood") + márfi "sausage"

11. bánnogáhkku

    Pancake

    Usage

    A flat pancake or crêpe-type cake baked in a pan

    Grammar Note

    A compound whose last part gáhkku means "cake" or baked sweet

12. guollegáhkku

    Fish cake

    Usage

    A dish of minced fish formed into a cake and fried or baked

    Grammar Note

    A compound: guolle- (the compounding stem of guolli "fish") + gáhkku "cake"

13. biergomális

    Meat soup

    Usage

    A soup of boiled meat. mális is a word for boiled food or a meal, and in the plural it can mean a meal with guests

    Grammar Note

    A compound: biergo- (a compounding stem of biergu "meat") + mális "boiled food, soup"

14. beasseláibi

    Flatbread

    Usage

    A thin, flat bread. láibi is the basic word for bread and forms the second part of many compounds

    Grammar Note

    A compound ending in láibi "bread". The meaning of the first part is not established, so it is not analysed here

15. vuodjaláibi

    Sandwich (buttered bread)

    Usage

    A small bread with butter; also the word for a sandwich or open sandwich

    Grammar Note

    A compound: vuodja ("butter") + láibi "bread"

16. buvru

    Porridge

    Usage

    Porridge of boiled grain. suohkat can also mean porridge, but it is also the adjective "thick, dense"

    Grammar Note

    A noun. Do not confuse it with the adjective suohkat

17. luomi

    Cloudberry

    Usage

    The amber fruit of northern bogs (Rubus chamaemorus), borne by a perennial plant

    Grammar Note

    A noun for a berry. The singular names the kind of fruit

18. jokŋa

    Lingonberry

    Usage

    A red berry of northern forests and heaths, a hardy plant that tolerates low temperatures

    Grammar Note

    A noun for a berry

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