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Ge'ez
Etymology
A Cushitic loan. In Somali sarreen, sareen, Gedeo sinde, Burji sinde, Saho sinraa, Afar sirnay, sirray, Blin shinraay, Awngi səndayi, Wolaytta sindiya, all meaning wheat.
Noun
ሥርናይ • (śərnay)
- wheat
References
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ሥርናይ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 241
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ሥርናይ”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 534a
- Praetorius, Franz (1890) “Beiträge zur äthiopischen Grammatik und Etymologie”, in Beiträge zur Assyriologie und semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), volume 1, page 24, Nr. 9