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Tigre
Etymology
Compare Blin ገኖ (ganṓ, “hide, leather, fell”), Tigrinya ጒኖ (gʷino, “tools of leather”).
Noun
ገኖ • (gäno)
- hide, leather, fell
1910, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume I: Tales, customs, names and dirges of the Tigrē tribes: Tigrē text, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 120 line 4:
References
- Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ገኖ”, 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 586b