dalci-waara

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Afar

Dalci-waará.

Etymology

Literally: "Eternal life of a striped hyena", reanalysed as a feminine noun. Traditionally, the aardwolf was thought to be as a shrunken (from old age) striped hyena.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dalħiwaːˈra/,
  • Hyphenation: dal‧ci‧waa‧ra

Noun

dalci-waará f 

  1. aardwolf (Proteles cristatus)

Declension

Declension of dalci-waará
absolutive dalci-waará
predicative dalci-waará
subjective dalci-waará
genitive dalci-waará
Postpositioned forms
l-case dalci-waarál
k-case dalci-waarák
t-case dalci-waarát
h-case dalci-waaráh

References

  • Didier Morin (2012) “dalci-waara”, in Dictionnaire afar-français (Djibouti, Erythrée, Ethiopie), Karthala, →ISBN, page 271