ሱሪ
Amharic
Alternative forms
- ሱሬ (surre)
Etymology
A Cushitic borrowing.
Noun
ሱሪ • (surri) (plural also ስራውር (sərawər))
References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990), Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 481b–482a
- Leslau, Wolf (1945), “The Influence of Cushitic on the Semitic Languages of Ethiopia: a Problem of Substratum”, in Word[1], volume 1, number 1, , page 79
- Leslau, Wolf (1976, 1993), Concise Amharic Dictionary: Amharic-English: English-Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 51a
Tigre
Alternative forms
- ስሬ (sərre)
Etymology
A Cushitic borrowing.
Noun
ሱሪ • (surri) (plural ሰረሪት (särärrit))
References
- Littmann, Enno; Höfner, Maria (1962), “”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)[2], Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 176a
- Leslau, Wolf (1945), “The Influence of Cushitic on the Semitic Languages of Ethiopia: a Problem of Substratum”, in Word[3], volume 1, number 1, , page 79
- Munzinger, Werner (1865), “ሱሪ”, in Vocabulaire de la langue tigré (in French), Leipzig: T.O. Weigel[4][5], page 21
Tigrinya
Alternative forms
Etymology
A Cushitic borrowing.
Noun
ሱሪ • (surri)
References
- da Bassano, Francesco (1918), “ስረ”, in Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray (in Italian), Rome: Casa editrice italiana di C. de Luigi, column 176
- Leslau, Wolf (1945), “The Influence of Cushitic on the Semitic Languages of Ethiopia: a Problem of Substratum”, in Word[6], volume 1, number 1, , page 79