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Tigre
Etymology
Derived from ጸሓይ (ṣäḥay, “sun”), as also ጸሐት (ṣäḥät, “Terminalia brownii”), typologically compare Swahili mwangati (“Terminalia spp.; Juniperus procera”) from mwanga (“light”) + -ti.
Noun
ጽሕዲ • (ṣəḥdi)
- African pencil cedar (Juniperus procera)
References
- Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ጽሕዲ”, 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 634a
Tigrinya
Etymology
Derived from ጸሓይ (ṣäḥay, “sun”), typologically compare Swahili mwangati (“Terminalia spp.; Juniperus procera”) from mwanga (“light”) + -ti.
Noun
ጽሕዲ • (ṣəḥdi)
- African pencil cedar (Juniperus procera)
- modernly reused to translate the Western concept of a Christmas tree and fir, which does not occur in Africa south of the 30th parallel north
References
- Schweinfurth, Georg August (1893) Abyssinische Pflanzennamen: eine alphabetische Aufzählung von Namen einheimischer Gewächse in Tigrinja sowie in anderen semitischen und hamitischen Sprachen von Abyssinien, unter Beifügung der botanischen Artbezeichnung (Abhandlungen der königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin / Sitzungsberichte St. XXXIII. S. 647) (in German), Berlin: Verlag der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Commission bei Georg Reimer, page 43a