nammay

• lammáy

From Proto-Cushitic *ɬa(a)ma. Cognates include Oromo lama, Sidamo lame, Somali lába, Daasanach naama, Awngi [Term?] (“laŋa”), and Iraqw tám (“three”).

At some point the irregular shift *l > n, but the original form is still present in some dialects as lammáy.

• IPA^(key): /namˈmaj/ [nʌmˈmʌj]
• Hyphenation: nam‧may

nammáy m (plural nammammáy m)

1. two, duo

• When used as a determiner, the genitive case is used:

  Nammá númu. ― Two people.

• When counting, the predicative case is used.

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “nammay”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN