እመ

Ge'ez

Etymology

Cognate with Hebrew אִם, Arabic إِنْ (ʔin), Classical Syriac ܐܶܢ.

Conjunction

እመ • (ʾəmä)

1. if, introduces the protasis of a conditional sentence

Related terms

• እም (ʾəm)

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “እመ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel