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Tigre
- ኢጋል (ʾigal), plural ኢግል (ʾigl)
Etymology
From Proto-West Semitic *ʕigl-.
Noun
እግል • (ʾəgəl) (collective, singulative እጋል (ʾəgal), plural እጕል (ʾəgʷəl), and ኣጋል (ʾagal), diminutive እጌለት (ʾəgelät))
- calf
References
- Munzinger, Werner (1865) “ኢጋል”, in Vocabulaire de la langue tigré (in French), Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, page 46
- Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “እግል”, 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 386a
- Raz, Shlomo (1983) Tigre grammar and texts (Afroasiatic Dialects; 4), Malibu: Undena Publications, →ISBN, page 21