ሞተ

Amharic

Root
መ-ወ-ተ (mä-wä-tä)

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *mawut-. Cognates include Ge'ez ሞተ (motä) and Arabic مَاتَ (māta).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmotə/
• Hyphenation: ሞ‧ተ

Verb

ሞተ • (motä) (verbal noun መሞት (mämot))

1. (intransitive) to die
2. (intransitive) to come to an end
3. (intransitive, of tools) to become blunt

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “*መወተ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN

Ge'ez

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *mawut-.

Verb

ሞተ • (motä) (prefix conjugation ይሙት (yəmut))

1. to die

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “ሞተ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 203

Tigre

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *mawut-.

Verb

ሞተ • (motä)

1. to die

References

• Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ሞተ”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎^[1], Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, pages 134a–135b

Tigrinya

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *mawut-.

Verb

ሞተ • (motä)

1. to die