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Ge'ez
Etymology
Either from Proto-West Semitic *gabr-, or formed internally from ገብረ (gäbrä, “to work”).
Noun
ገብር • (gäbr) m (plural አግብርት)
- servant, slave
References
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ገብር”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel
- Kogan, Leonid (2011) “Proto-Semitic Lexicon”, in Weninger, Stefan, editor, The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; 36), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 237
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 78