ɣer

Kabyle

Etymology

From Punic 𐤒𐤓𐤀 (qrʾ).

Verb

ɣer (intensive aorist yeqqar, aorist iɣer, preterite yeɣra, negative preterite yeɣri)

1. to read

   Qqareɣ adlis.

   I'm reading a book.

2. to study

   Teɣra taεrabt.

   She studied Arabic.

3. to call

   Qqaren-yas Kamal.

   His name is Kamal.

   (literally, “They call him Kamal.”)

Usage notes

• The intensive aorist is also found with the stem -ɣɣar- instead of -qqar-, especially when used to mean "call".
• The intensive aorist of this verb can be suppleted into the paradigm of ini (“to say”).
• The verb, when used as an introduction to a person's name, is inflected in the third-person plural masculine, and the person being named incurs the corresponding indirect object affix on the verb.

References

• Blažek, Václav (2014) “Phoenician/Punic loans in Berber languages and their role in chronology of Berber”, in Folia Orientalia‎^[1], volume 51, pages 276–293