ዓመት
Amharic
Etymology
From Proto-West Semitic *ʕām-. Cognates include Ge'ez ዓም (ʿam) and Arabic عَام (ʕām).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈ(ʔ)amət/
- Hyphenation: አ‧መት
Declension
Definiteness forms of ዓመት (ʿamät)
| Masculine | |
|---|---|
| Indefinite | ዓመት (ʿamät) |
| Definite subject | ዓመቱ (ʿamätu) |
| Definite object | ዓመቱን (ʿamätun) |
| General object | ዓመትን (ʿamätən) |
Possessive forms of ዓመት (ʿamät)
| Singular | Plural | Formal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First person | ዓመቴ (ʿamäte) | ዓመታችን (ʿamätaččən) | — | |
| Second person | m | ዓመትህ (ʿamätəh) | ዓመታችሁ (ʿamätaččəhu) | ዓመትዎ (ʿamätwo) |
| f | ዓመትሽ (ʿamätəš) | |||
| Third person | m | ዓመቱ (ʿamätu) | ዓመታቸው (ʿamätaččäw) | |
| f | ዓመቷ (ʿamätʷa) | |||
References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ዓመት”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
Ge'ez
Alternative forms
- ዓም (ʿam)
Etymology
From Proto-West Semitic *ʕām-.
See also
- አመት (ʾämät)
References
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ዓመት”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 955–956
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 62b
Tigre
Etymology
From Proto-West Semitic *ʕām-.
References
- Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ዓመት”, 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, page 456b
Tigrinya
Etymology
From Proto-West Semitic *ʕām-.
References
- da Bassano, Francesco (1918) “ዓመት”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 675
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