ሞተ
Amharic edit
| Root |
|---|
| መ-ወ-ተ (mä-wä-tä) |
Etymology edit
From Proto-Semitic *mawut-. Cognates include Ge'ez ሞተ (motä) and Arabic مَاتَ (māta).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ሞተ • (motä) (verbal noun መሞት (mämot))
- (intransitive) to die
- (intransitive) to come to an end
- (intransitive, of tools) to become blunt
References edit
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “*መወተ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
Ge'ez edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Semitic *mawut-.
Verb edit
ሞተ • (motä) (prefix conjugation ይሙት (yəmut))
- to die
References edit
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ሞተ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 203
Tigre edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Semitic *mawut-.
Verb edit
ሞተ • (motä)
- to die
References edit
- 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)[1], Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, pages 134a–135b
Tigrinya edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Semitic *mawut-.
Verb edit
ሞተ • (motä)
- to die