ስምንት

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Amharic

Amharic numbers (edit)
80
 ←  7
8
9  → 
    Cardinal: ስምንት (səmmənt)
    Ordinal: ስምንተኛ (səmməntäñña)
    Adverbial: ስምንቴ (səmmənte)

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ṯamāniy-. Cognates include Arabic ثَمَانِيَة (ṯamāniya) and Ge'ez ሰማንቱ (sämantu).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɨmːɨnt/
  • Hyphenation: ስ‧ምንት

Numeral

ስምንት (səmmənt)

  1. eight

References

  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ስምንት”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 473
  • Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 50