አዪ

Tigre

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔayy-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʔɐ̟ji]

Pronoun

አዪ • (ʾäyi) (feminine አያ (ʾäya), masculine plural አዮም (ʾäyom), feminine plural አየን (ʾäyän))

1. which, what kind of?
   • 1910, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume I: Tales, customs, names and dirges of the Tigrē tribes: Tigrē text‎^[1], Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 6 lines 19–20:

Usage notes

After prepositions of place the feminine form is used in a way to be translated as “where”.

References

• Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “አዪ”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎^[2], Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 382a
• Raz, Shlomo (1983) Tigre grammar and texts (Afroasiatic Dialects; 4), Malibu: Undena Publications, →ISBN, pages 42, 87–88