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1913, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text., Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 209 Nr. 285 line 4:
ምን፡ሽዒር፡መልእዋ፡ምን፡ማሼላ፡ለገመት።
mən-šəʿir-mälləʾwa-mən-mašela-lä-gämmät.
Of barley they filled and of durra what was empty.
translation into German Enno Littmann, editor (1913), Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume IV: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Deutsche Übersetzung und Commentar. (in Tigre), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 441
References
Leslau, Wolf (1945) “The Influence of Cushitic on the Semitic Languages of Ethiopia: a Problem of Substratum”, in Word, volume 1, number 1, →DOI, page 80
Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ማሼላ”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 121b
Munzinger, Werner (1865) “ማሼላ”, in Vocabulaire de la langue tigré (in French), Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, page 15
