ሬሳ

Amharic

Etymology

Related to Tigrinya ሬሳ (resa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾesa/
• Hyphenation: ሬ‧ሳ

Noun

ሬሳ • (resa) m

1. corpse, carcass

Declension

Definiteness forms of ሬሳ (resa)

	Masculine
Indefinite	ሬሳ (resa)
Definite subject	ሬሳው (resaw)
Definite object	ሬሳውን (resawən)
General object	ሬሳን (resan)

Possessive forms of ሬሳ (resa)

		Singular	Plural	Formal
First person		ሬሳዬ (resaye)	ሬሳችን (resaččən)	—
Second person	m	ሬሳህ (resah)	ሬሳችሁ (resaččəhu)	ሬሳዎ (resawo)
	f	ሬሳሽ (resaš)
Third person	m	ሬሳው (resaw)	ሬሳቸው (resaččäw)
	f	ሬሳዋ (resawa)

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ሬሳ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
• Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 35

Tigrinya

Noun

ሬሳ • (resa)

1. corpse