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Arabic Loanwords in Tigré

Pages 125-141 | Published online: 04 Dec 2015

  • M. A. Bryan, The Distribution of the Semitic and Cushilic Languages of Africa, 1947, pp. 7–9.
  • J. S. Trimingham, Islam in Ethiopia, 1952, pp. 30, 155–71.
  • See also W. Leslau, Bibliography of the Semitic Languages of Ethiopia, 1946, pp. 43–45.
  • “A Year of Research in Ethiopia”, Word. 4 (1948). 224.
  • Note that “Moslem prayer” is sälat from the Arabic ṣalot, while “Christian prayer” is expressed by the Ethiopie form ṣälot.
  • Several Arabic dialects show the transition of the glottal stop into w in the verbs 1st radical'; cp. Oman wenn “groan” (classical Arabic 'anna),; [ωahhdd “live like a hermit.” (classical Arabic ta'a ḥḥada); see C. Reinhold, Ein arabischer Dialekt gesprochen in 'Oman und Zanzibar, p. 187; W. Marçais, Le dialecte arabe des Uläd Brahim de Saida, p. 81–2. In Tlemcen: wânes « devenir familier », root 'ns; wâlef « s'habituer à », root 'lf (W. Marçais, Le dialecte arabe parlé à Tlemcen, p. 76).
  • In κərəz “talisman”, Tigré k corresponds to Arabie ḥ of ḥirz.
  • For d and z as dialectal variations in Tigré, see C. Conti Rossini, Oriente Moderno 28 (1948). 113.
  • Various Arabic dialects also have the form qâli « expensive”; see C. Landberg, Glossaire Datinois, p. 2352.
  • See C. Landberg, Glossaire Datinois, p. 85.
  • W. Leslau, JAOS 68 (1948). 128, § 11.
  • JAOS 65 (1945). 171; 68 (1948). 128.
  • JAOS 65 (1945). 171.
  • b. 173.
  • ib. 182.
  • ib. 176.
  • The classification is taken from C. D. Buck, A Dictionary of Synonyms in the principal Indo-European Languages, 1948.
  • A = d'Abbadie, Extrait du vocabulaire de la langue tigré; Reiniseh = Reinisch, Wörterbuch der Bilin-Sprache.
  • Note the k representing the Arabic q.
  • See note 6.
  • See note 16.

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