ሞተ

Amharic

Root
መ-ወ-ተ (mä-wä-tä)

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *mawut-. Cognates include Ge'ez ሞተ (motä) and Arabic مَاتَ (māta).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmotə/
Hyphenation: ሞ‧ተ

Verb

ሞተ • (motä) (verbal noun መሞት (mämot))

(intransitive) to die
(intransitive) to come to an end
(intransitive, of tools) to become blunt

References

Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “*መወተ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN

Ge'ez

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *mawut-.

Verb

ሞተ • (motä) (prefix conjugation ይሙት (yəmut))

to die

References

Dillmann, August (1865) “ሞተ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 203

Tigre

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *mawut-.

Verb

ሞተ • (motä)

to die

References

Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ሞተ”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, pages 134a–135b

Tigrinya

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *mawut-.

Verb

ሞተ • (motä)

to die

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