መትከፍት

Ge'ez

Alternative forms

• መትከፍ (mätkäf)

Etymology

Derivative of Proto-West Semitic *katip- f.

Noun

መትከፍት • (mätkäft) f (plural መታክፍ (mätakəf), and መታክፍት (mätakəft))

1. shoulder
2. (poetical) the yoke as the body part where a beast of burden carries load

Further reading

• Dillmann, August (1865) “መትከፍት”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 568–569
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) “መትከፍት”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 372a