ሽል

Amharic

Alternative forms

• ሺል (šil)

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *šilyat-.

Noun

ሽል • (šəl)

1. fetus, embryo
2. conception, gravidation

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 603a

Tigrinya

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *šilyat-.

Noun

ሽል • (šəl)

1. fetus still in the mother’s womb

References

• da Bassano, Francesco (1918) “ሽል”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 215