ቃል
Amharic
Etymology
From Proto-West Semitic *ḳawl- (“voice”). Cognates include Ge'ez ቃል (ḳal) and Hebrew קוֹל (kol).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkʼal/
- Hyphenation: ቃል
Noun
ቃል • (ḳal) m
Declension
| masculine | |
|---|---|
| indefinite | ቃል (ḳal) |
| definite subject | ቃሉ (ḳalu) |
| definite object | ቃሉን (ḳalun) |
| general object | ቃልን (ḳalən) |
| singular | plural | formal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| first person | ቃሌ (ḳale) | ቃላችን (ḳalaččən) | — | |
| second person | m | ቃልህ (ḳaləh) | ቃላችሁ (ḳalaččəhu) | ቃልዎ (ḳalwo) |
| f | ቃልሽ (ḳaləš) | |||
| third person | m | ቃሉ (ḳalu) | ቃላቸው (ḳalaččäw) | |
| f | ቃሏ (ḳalʷa) | |||
Descendants
- → Sidamo: qaale
References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ቃል”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
Tigrinya
Noun
ቃል • (ḳal) m (plural ቃላት (ḳalat))