zamā

Waigali

Etymology

From Proto-Nuristani *jāmātā, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ā́mātā, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵem- (“to marry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zaˈmaː/

Noun

zamā (Nisheigram, Waigal)

1. son-in-law

References

• Jakob Halfmann (2022) Advances in the historical phonology of the Nuristani languages, in 'International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 19, page 127