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Ge'ez
Etymology
Related to Tigrinya ስገም (səgäm, “barley”). A Cushitic borrowing, compare Xamtanga sikema, Blin sekma, Awngi simeki.
Noun
ሰገም • (sägäm)
- barley
References
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ሰገም”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel
- Marrassini, Paolo (2003) “The Semites in Abyssinia: Onomastic and Lexicographical Notes”, in Kogan, Leonid, editor, Studia Semitica (Orientalia: Papers of the Oriental Institute; III), Moscow, →ISBN, page 149