ሊሎ
Amharic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlilo/
- Hyphenation: ሊ‧ሎ
Noun
ሊሎ • (lilo) m or f by sense
Declension
| masculine | feminine | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | ሊሎ (lilo) | |
| definite subject | ሊሎው (lilow) | ሊሎዋ (lilowa) ሊሎይቱ (liloyətu) ሊሎይቷ (liloyətʷa) |
| definite object | ሊሎውን (lilowən) | ሊሎዋን (lilowan) ሊሎይቱን (liloyətun) ሊሎይቷን (liloyətʷan) |
| general object | ሊሎን (lilon) | |
| singular | plural | formal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| first person | ሊሎዬ (liloye) | ሊሎዋችን (lilowaččən) | — | |
| second person | m | ሊሎህ (liloh) | ሊሎዋችሁ (lilowaččəhu) | ሊሎዎ (lilowo) |
| f | ሊሎሽ (liloš) | |||
| third person | m | ሊሎው (lilow) | ሊሎዋቸው (lilowaččäw) | |
| f | ሊሎዋ (lilowa) | |||
References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ሊሎ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 39
Ge'ez
Alternative forms
- ሎሎ (lolo)
Etymology
Uncertain. Only attested in Ethiopic Semitic (e.g. Amharic ሊሎ (lilo), Tigrinya [script needed] (lila), and Tigre [script needed] (līlo)), and some Cushitic languages. Perhaps derived from the same root as ሌሊት (lelit, “night”).
Noun
ሊሎ • (lilo) m
References
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ሊሎ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ሊሎ”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 314a