Arabic edit

Etymology edit

From Ancient Greek ναύτης (naútēs, seaman) and ναυτίλος (nautílos, seaman; nautilus mollusc), possibly via Aramaic, compare the Aramaic borrowings with this ending نُمِّيّ (nummiyy) and سَكِّيّ (sakkiyy) or دُرْدِيّ (durdiyy), though seemingly an old loanword.

Noun edit

نُوتِيّ or نَوْتِيّ (nūtiyy or nawtiyym (plural نَوَاتِيّ (nawātiyy) or نُوتِيَّة (nūtiyya) or نَوْتِيَّة (nawtiyya))

  1. seaman, mariner, sailor
    Synonym: مَلَّاح (mallāḥ)
  2. nautilus, a marine mollusc of a spiral shell

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Ge'ez: ኖትያዊ (notəyawi)

References edit

  • nwṭ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “نوتي”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 733
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 221
  • Garosi, Eugenio (2022 December 1) “Regional Diversity in the Use of Administrative Loanwords in Early Islamic Arabic Documentary Sources (632–800 CE): A Preliminary Survey”, in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World. From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 417
  • Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 408
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “نوتي”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2863
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft[3] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 61