Faransaawi

Afar

Etymology

From Arabic فَرَنْسَاوِيّ (faransāwiyy).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faranˈsaːwi/ [fʌɾʌnˈsaːwɪ]
• Hyphenation: Fa‧ran‧saa‧wi

Noun

Faransáawi m (singulative Faransaawíita m or Faransaawiitá f)

1. (collective) Frenchmen, French people

Declension

Declension of Faransáawi

absolutive Faransáawi predicative Faransáawi subjective Faransaawí genitive Faransaawí Postpositioned forms l-case Faransáawil k-case Faransáawik t-case Faransáawit h-case Faransáawih

References

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “faransaàwi”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2013 August) “Gender, Number and Agreement in Afar (Cushitic language)”, in 43th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics‎^[1], Leiden: Leiden University
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)