Amharic edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Semitic *niḥnu. Cognates include Ge'ez ንሕነ (nəḥnä) and Arabic نَحْنُ (naḥnu).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈ(ʔ)ɨɲːa/
  • Hyphenation: እ‧ኛ
  • (file)

Pronoun edit

እኛ (ʾǝñña)

  1. we

See also edit

References edit

  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “እኛ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
  • Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 17