ሥርናይ
Ge'ez edit
Alternative forms edit
- ስርናይ (sərnay)
Etymology edit
A Cushitic loan. In Somali sarreen, sareen, Gedeo sinde, Burji sinde, Saho sinraa, Afar sirnay, sirray, Blin shinraay, Awngi səndayi, Wolaytta sindiya, all meaning wheat.
Noun edit
ሥርናይ • (śərnay)
References edit
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ሥርናይ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 241
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ሥርናይ”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 534a
- Praetorius, Franz (1890) “Beiträge zur äthiopischen Grammatik und Etymologie”, in Beiträge zur Assyriologie und semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), volume 1, page 24, Nr. 9