telfoon

Afar

Alternative forms

• talafóon

Etymology

Telfoon.

Probably borrowed from French téléphone, ultimately from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”). Compare Arabic تِلِفُون (tilifūn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /telˈfoːn/ [tɛlˈfoːn]
• Hyphenation: tel‧foon

Noun

telfóon m 

1. telephone

Declension

Declension of telfóon
absolutive	telfóon
predicative	telfóonu
subjective	telfóon
genitive	telfóon
Postpositioned forms l-case telfóonul k-case telfóonuk t-case telfóonut h-case telfóonuh

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 383