ayyur

Kabyle

Alternative forms

Noun

ayyur m (construct state wayyur, plural ayyuren, plural construct state wayyuren)

  1. moon
    Twalamt ayyur deg yigenni?
    Did you pl see the moon in the sky?
  2. month
    Gezzmeɣ acebbub-iw yal ayyur.
    I get a haircut every month.

Tashelhit

Etymology

From Proto-Berber *aʔyur (“moon, month”).[1], ultimately from Proto-Afroasiatic *y-r-ḥ (“moon, month”).

Cognates include Kabyle aggur (“moon”), Zenaga äʔž(ž)ər (“moon”) and Tarifit yur (“new moon”), Ghadames ōyăr (“moon, lunar month”), Egyptian jꜥḥ (“moon”), and Proto-Semitic *warḫ- (“moon, month”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ajːur/
  • Audio (Imsouane):(file)

Noun

ayyur m (plural irn, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵢⵢⵓⵔ, Arabic spelling آيّور)

  1. moon
    isqsa iy lustad ɣ manik snaḥya wayyur d wakal.
    the teacher asked me how the moon differs from the earth.
  2. month
    ayyur-ad d-yuckan, rad ig Kṭubr. ― Next month will be October.

Inflection

Inflection of ayyur
singular plural
free state ayyur irn
construct state wayyur yirn

See also

References

  1. ^ Marijn van Putten (2019), “Introducción al estudio diacrónico del bereber”, in José Juan Batista Rodríguez, editor, Estudios sobre toponimia canaria prehispánica (in Spanish), Academia Canaria De La Lengua, →ISBN
  • Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 1 a—e (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/1) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 541a
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