telfoon

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Afar

Alternative forms

Etymology

Telfoon.

Probably borrowed from French téléphone, ultimately from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”). Compare Arabic تِلِفُون (tilifūn).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /telˈfoːn/
  • Hyphenation: tel‧foon

Noun

telfóon m 

  1. telephone

Declension

Declension of telfóon
absolutive telfóon
predicative telfóonu
subjective telfóon
genitive telfóon
Postpositioned forms
l-case telfóonul
k-case telfóonuk
t-case telfóonut
h-case telfóonuh

References

  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 383
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