kaxxa-abba
Afar edit
Etymology edit
From kaxxá (“to be old”) + abbá (“father”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kaxxa-abbá m
Declension edit
Declension of kaxxa-abbá | ||||||||||||||||||
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absolutive | kaxxa-abbá | |||||||||||||||||
predicative | kaxxa-abbá | |||||||||||||||||
subjective | kaxxa-abbí | |||||||||||||||||
genitive | kaxxa-abbí | |||||||||||||||||
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Coordinate terms edit
- aboyyá (“grandmother”)
Descendants edit
- → Translingual: Ardipithecus kadabba
References edit
- E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 299
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)