ጌሰ

Ge'ez

Root
ገ-የ-ሰ (gä-yä-sä)
2 terms

Alternative forms

• ጌሠ (geśä)

Etymology

Probably back-formation from ጌሰም (gesäm, “tomorrow”), see it for a derivation.

Verb

ጌሰ • (gesä) (verbal noun ገይስ (gäys), prefix conjugation ይጊስ (yəgis))

1. to depart, journey, to go or leave particularly in the morning [with accusative ‘to’]

Derived terms

• ገየሰ (gäyyäsä, “to hurry in the morning”)
• አጌሰ (ʾägesä), አግየሰ (ʾägyäsä, “to make go in the morning; to dismiss”)
• ጊሰት (gisät, “the dealing with affairs in the morning”)

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “ጌሰ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 1195–1196
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ጌሰ”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 208b