xaylo
Afar
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Iraqw xwayluw (“to bear”), Oromo dhaluu (“to bear”) and Saho dhala (“birth”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]xayló f (singulative baxá f or báxa m)
Declension
[edit]| Declension of xayló | ||||||||||||||||||
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| absolutive | xayló | |||||||||||||||||
| predicative | xayló | |||||||||||||||||
| subjective | xayló | |||||||||||||||||
| genitive | xayló | |||||||||||||||||
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See also
[edit]- úrru (“children”)
References
[edit]- E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “xaylo”, 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