እንስሳ

Amharic

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “is it inherired or is it a borrowing from Ge'ez?”)

Noun

እንስሳ • (ənsəsa) m

animal

Ge'ez

Etymology

From the root meaning 'to walk', related to Hebrew שִׁשֵּׁא‎, Arabic دَأْدَأَ‎ (daʔdaʔa), Hebrew הִדַּדָּה‎. Compare Arabic مَاشِيَةٌ‎ (māšiyatun, “cattle”), from the root م ش ي‎ (m š y, “to walk”). See አንሶሰወ (ʾänsosäwä, “to walk”).

Noun

እንስሳ • (ʾənsəsa) m (plural እንስሳት)

animal

References

Dillmann, August (1865), “እንስሳ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel

Tigrinya

Noun

እንስሳ • (ʾənsəsa)

animal

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