አዪ
Tigre edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Semitic *ʔayy-.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
አዪ • (ʾäyi) (feminine አያ (ʾäya), masculine plural አዮም (ʾäyom), feminine plural አየን (ʾäyän))
- which, what kind of?
- 1910, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume I: Tales, customs, names and dirges of the Tigrē tribes: Tigrē text[1], Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 6 lines 19–20:
Usage notes edit
After prepositions of place the feminine form is used in a way to be translated as “where”.
References edit
- Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “አዪ”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)[2], Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 382a
- Raz, Shlomo (1983) Tigre grammar and texts (Afroasiatic Dialects; 4), Malibu: Undena Publications, →ISBN, pages 42, 87–88