aysum

Tarifit

Alternative forms

Etymology

From earlier aksum, from Proto-Berber *a-ksum.

Compare Central Atlas Tamazight aksum (meat), Kabyle aksum (meat), Tachawit agsum (to stand), Northern Saharan Berber aysum (meat), Ghadames aksem (meat).

Noun

aysum m (Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵢⵙⵓⵎ, plural iyesman)

  1. meat
  2. flesh

Declension

Inflection of aysum
singular plural
free state aysum iyesman
construct state uysum yiyesman