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Ge'ez
Etymology 1
Univerbation of ሰይ (säy, “woe”) + ለ- (lä-, “for”).
Interjection
ሰይል • (säyl)
- woe! alas!
- Synonyms: አሌ (ʾäle), ወይል (wäyl), ወይሌ (wäyle)
Noun
ሰይል • (säyl)
- woe, sorrow, malum, calamity
Etymology 2
From Proto-Semitic *šilyat-.
Noun
ሰይል • (säyl)
- foetus, embryo
References
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ሰይል”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 392
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ሰይል”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 522b