gowwa

Sidamo edit

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Oromo gowwaa.

gowwa (plural gowwoota)

Declension of gowwa

	masculine	feminine
predicative	gowwa	gowwa
nominative	gowwu	gowwa
genitive	gowwu^*)	gowwa^*) gowwate
accusative	gowwa^*)	gowwa^*)
^) Stressed on the final vowel. ^) When part of a predicative phrase, the predicative case adjectives are followed by the clitics -ho* (m) and -te (f)

Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 144
Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “gowwa”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department