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Etymology
From Punic 𐤒𐤓𐤀 (qrʾ).
Verb
ɣer (intensive aorist yeqqar, aorist iɣer, preterite yeɣra, negative preterite yeɣri)
- to read
Qqareɣ adlis.- I'm reading a book.
- to study
Teɣra taεrabt.- She studied Arabic.
- to call
Qqaren-yas Kamal.- His name is Kamal.
- (literally, “They call him Kamal.”)
Usage notes
- The intensive aorist is also found with the stem -ɣɣar- instead of -qqar-, especially when used to mean "call".
- The intensive aorist of this verb can be suppleted into the paradigm of ini (“to say”).
- The verb, when used as an introduction to a person's name, is inflected in the third-person plural masculine, and the person being named incurs the corresponding indirect object affix on the verb.
References
- Blažek, Václav (2014) “Phoenician/Punic loans in Berber languages and their role in chronology of Berber”, in Folia Orientalia, volume 51, pages 276–293