kaxxa-abba
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Afar
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From kaxxá (“to be old”) + abbá (“father”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kaxxa-abbá m
Declension
[edit]| Declension of kaxxa-abbá | ||||||||||||||||||
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| absolutive | kaxxa-abbá | |||||||||||||||||
| predicative | kaxxa-abbá | |||||||||||||||||
| subjective | kaxxa-abbí | |||||||||||||||||
| genitive | kaxxa-abbí | |||||||||||||||||
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Coordinate terms
[edit]- aboyyá (“grandmother”)
Descendants
[edit]- → Translingual: Ardipithecus kadabba
References
[edit]- E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 299
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)