catuffa
Afar
editEtymology
editOnomatopoeic for the sound of an earthquake. Created around the 1950s in Djibouti, used originally to express the decimal numbers in the Richter magnitude scale.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcatuffá f
References
edit- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)