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Ge'ez
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *ʔakal-.
Noun
እክል • (ʾəkl) m or f (plural እክላት (ʾəklat))
- food
- corn, grain, field crop
References
Tigre
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *ʔakal-.
Noun
እክል • (ʾəkəl) (collective, plural ኣካል (ʾakal), singulative እከለት (ʾəkälät))
- corn, grain
1913, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume III: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Tigrē Text., Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 167 Nr. 237 line 19:ትምባክ፡ፈቴ፡አቡካ፡ምን፡ሐሊብማ፡ወእክል።- təmbak-fätte-ʾäbuka-mən-ḥälibma-wä-ʾəkəl.
- Tobacco thy father loves more than milk and than cereal.
- translated into German Enno Littmann, editor (1913), Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume IV: Lieder der Tigrē-Stämme: Deutsche Übersetzung und Commentar. (in Tigre), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 353
References
- Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “እክል”, 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, page 376a
- Munzinger, Werner (1865) “እክል”, in Vocabulaire de la langue tigré (in French), Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, page 45