ሆድ

Amharic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *kabid- (“liver”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhod/
• Hyphenation: ሆድ

Noun

ሆድ • (hod) m

1. belly, abdomen

Declension

Definiteness forms of ሆድ (hod)

	Masculine
Indefinite	ሆድ (hod)
Definite subject	ሆዱ (hodu)
Definite object	ሆዱን (hodun)
General object	ሆድን (hodən)

Possessive forms of ሆድ (hod)

		Singular	Plural	Formal
First person		ሆዴ (hode)	ሆዳችን (hodaččən)	—
Second person	m	ሆድህ (hodəh)	ሆዳችሁ (hodaččəhu)	ሆድዎ (hodwo)
	f	ሆድሽ (hodəš)
Third person	m	ሆዱ (hodu)	ሆዳቸው (hodaččäw)
	f	ሆዷ (hodʷa)

References

• Leslau, Wolf (1976, 1993) Concise Amharic Dictionary: Amharic-English: English-Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ሆድ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 29
• Kogan, Leonid (2015) Genealogical Classification of Semitic. The Lexical Isoglosses, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 32