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Amharic
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *mawut-. Cognates include Ge'ez ሞተ (motä) and Arabic مَاتَ (māta).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmotə/
- Hyphenation: ሞ‧ተ
Verb
ሞተ • (motä) (verbal noun መሞት (mämot))
- (intransitive) to die
- (intransitive) to come to an end
- (intransitive, of tools) to become blunt
References
- Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “*መወተ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
Ge'ez
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *mawut-.
Verb
ሞተ • (motä) (prefix conjugation ይሙት (yəmut))
- to die
References
Tigre
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *mawut-.
Verb
ሞተ • (motä)
- to die
References
- Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ሞተ”, 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, pages 134a–135b
Tigrinya
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *mawut-.
Verb
ሞተ • (motä)
- to die