ሁለት

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Amharic

Amharic numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: ሁለት (hulätt)
    Ordinal: ሁለተኛ (hulättäñña)
    Adverbial: ሁለቴ (hulätte)
    Fractional: ግማሽ (gəmmaš)

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *kilʾ-. Cognates include Arabic كِلَا (kilā, both) and Ge'ez ክልኤቱ (kəlʾetu).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhulətː/
  • Hyphenation: ሁ‧ለት
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Numeral

ሁለት (hulätt)

  1. two

References

  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ሁለት”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 4
  • Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 50