kaxxa-abba

Afar

Etymology

From kaxxá (“to be old”) +‎ abbá (“father”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɖːabˈba/ [kʌɖːʌbˈbʌ]
• Hyphenation: kax‧xa‧ab‧ba

Noun

kaxxa-abbá m 

1. grandfather

Declension

Declension of kaxxa-abbá

absolutive kaxxa-abbá predicative kaxxa-abbá subjective kaxxa-abbí genitive kaxxa-abbí Postpositioned forms l-case kaxxa-abbál k-case kaxxa-abbák t-case kaxxa-abbát h-case kaxxa-abbáh

Coordinate terms

• aboyyá (“grandmother”)

Descendants

• → Translingual: Ardipithecus kadabba

References

• 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)