dalci-waara
Afar
Dalci-waará.
Etymology
Literally: "Eternal life of a striped hyena", reanalysed as a feminine noun. Traditionally, the aardwolf was thought to be as a shrunken (from old age) striped hyena.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dalħiwaːˈra/, [dʌlħɪwaːˈɾʌ]
- Hyphenation: dal‧ci‧waa‧ra
Declension
| Declension of dalci-waará | ||||||||||||||||||
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| absolutive | dalci-waará | |||||||||||||||||
| predicative | dalci-waará | |||||||||||||||||
| subjective | dalci-waará | |||||||||||||||||
| genitive | dalci-waará | |||||||||||||||||
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References
- Didier Morin (2012) “dalci-waara”, in Dictionnaire afar-français (Djibouti, Erythrée, Ethiopie), Karthala, →ISBN, page 271
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