alfi

Afar

Afar numbers (edit)
 ←  1  ←  100 1,000 1,000,000 (106)  →  1,000,000,000 (109)  → 
    Cardinal: álfi, (obsolete) kúum

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَلْف (ʔalf).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈalfi/ [ˈʔʌlfɪ]
  • Hyphenation: al‧fi

Noun

álfi m (plural alfitté f)

  1. thousand

Usage notes

  • When used as a determiner, the genitive case is used:
    Alfí númu. ― A thousand people.
  • When counting, the predicative case is used.

Declension

Declension of álfi
absolutive álfi
predicative álfi
subjective alfí
genitive alfí
Postpositioned forms
l-case álfil
k-case álfik
t-case álfit
h-case álfih

Synonyms

References

  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “àlfi”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2004) Parlons Afar: Langue et Culture, L'Hammartan, →ISBN, page 77
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 197

Old Norse

Noun

alfi

  1. dative singular of alfr
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