Amharic

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Amharic numbers (edit)
10
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1
2  →  10  → 
    Cardinal: አንድ (ʾand)
    Ordinal: አንደኛ (ʾandäñña)
    Adverbial: አንዴ (ʾande)

Etymology

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From Proto-Semitic *ʔaḥad-. Cognates include Arabic أَحَد (ʔaḥad) and Ge'ez አሐዱ (ʾäḥädu).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈ(ʔ)and/
  • Hyphenation: አንድ
  • Audio:(file)

Numeral

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አንድ (ʾand) (feminine አንዲት (ʾandit))

  1. one

References

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  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “አንድ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 1229
  • Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 51