እኅት
Amharic edit
Alternative forms edit
- እት (ʾət)
Etymology edit
From Proto-Semitic *ʔaḫwat-. Cognates include Ge'ez እኅት (ʾəḫt) and Tigre ሕት (ḥət).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
እኅት • (ʾəḫət) f (plural እኅቶች (ʾəḫətočč) or እኅትማማች (ʾəḫətəmmamačč))
Coordinate terms edit
- (sister): ወንድም (wändəmm, “brother”)
References edit
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “እኅት”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
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Ge'ez edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Semitic *ʔaḫwat-.
Noun edit
እኅት • (ʾəḫt) f (plural አኃት (ʾäḫat), rarely እኅታት (ʾəḫtat))
References edit
- Dillmann, August (1865) “እኅት”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 766