qeela

Afar

Qeela.

Etymology

Cognate with Saho ceela.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʕeːla/, [ˈʕeːlʌ]
• Hyphenation: qee‧la

Noun

qéela m (plural qeelitté f or qelwá f)

1. well (for getting water)

Declension

Declension of qéela
absolutive	qéela
predicative	qéela
subjective	qeelí
genitive	qeelí
Postpositioned forms l-case qéelal k-case qéelak t-case qéelat h-case qéelah

See also

• búyyi (“shallow well”)

References

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “qeèla”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)