ሰገም

Ge'ez

Etymology

Related to Tigrinya ስገም (səgäm, “barley”). A Cushitic borrowing, compare Xamtanga sikema, Blin sekma, Awngi simeki.

Noun

ሰገም • (sägäm)

1. barley

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “ሰገም”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel
• Marrassini, Paolo (2003) “The Semites in Abyssinia: Onomastic and Lexicographical Notes”, in Kogan, Leonid, editor, Studia Semitica (Orientalia: Papers of the Oriental Institute; III), Moscow, →ISBN, page 149