ልጋም
Tigre edit
Alternative forms edit
- ሉጋም (lugam)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from a rare Aramaic if not a pre-Islamic borrowing from Arabic لِجَام (lijām).
Noun edit
ልጋም • (ləgam) (plural አልግመት (ʾälgəmät), and አለግመት (ʾäläggəmät), diminutive ልጌማይ (ləgemay), diminutive plural አልግሜታም (ʾälgəmetam))
Derived terms edit
- ለግመ (lägmä, “to bridle; to load with ammunition; to be incurable; to render silent”)
- ላገመ (lagämä, “to be engaged in bridling, loading etc.”, intensive)
- አልገመ (ʾälgämä, causative)
- አተልገመ (ʾättälgämä, double causative)
- ትለገመ (təläggämä, “to become silent”)
- ተሎገመ (täloggämä, “to become bridled”)
- ትላገመ (təlagämä, “passive of the intensive”)
References edit
- Munzinger, Werner (1865) “ልጋም”, in Vocabulaire de la langue tigré (in French), Leipzig: T.O. Weigel[1][2], page 13
- Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ልጋም”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)[3], Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 48