ቀዳሚ

Ge'ez

**Ge'ez ordinal numbers**
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Cardinal : አሐዱ (ʾäḥädu) Ordinal : ቀዳሚ (ḳädami)

Etymology

Cognates include Tigre ቀዳም (ḳädam) and Tigrinya ቀዳማይ (ḳädamay).

Adjective

ቀዳሚ • (ḳädami) m (feminine singular ቀዳሚት, masculine plural ቀደምት, feminine plural ቀዳምያት)

Noun

ቀዳሚ • (ḳädami)

beginning
- 1853-1855, August Dillmann, editor, Veteris Testamenti Aethiopici‎, Leipzig, Genesis 1:1:
  
  በቀዳሚ፡ገብረ፡እግዚአብሔር፡ሰማየ፡ወምድረ።
  bäḳädami gäbrä ʾəgziʾäbḥer sämayä wämdrä.
  In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

References

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

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