ሣሬት

Ge'ez

Alternative forms

• ሳሬት (saret) — late spelling

Etymology

A Cushitic borrowing. Blin saariro, Qimant saari, Awngi sheraani, Oromo sariitii.

Noun

ሣሬት • (śaret)

1. spider
2. cobweb

Derived terms

• ሠረየ (śäräyä, “to weave”)

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “ሣሬት”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 245
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 535a–b