ሞተ

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Amharic[edit]

Root
መ-ወ-ተ
(mä-wä-tä)

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Semitic *mawut-. Cognates include Ge'ez ሞተ (motä) and Arabic مَاتَ (māta).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈmotə/
  • Hyphenation: ሞ‧ተ

Verb[edit]

ሞተ (motä) (verbal noun መሞት (mämot))

  1. (intransitive) to die
  2. (intransitive) to come to an end
  3. (intransitive, of tools) to become blunt

References[edit]

  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “*መወተ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN

Ge'ez[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Semitic *mawut-.

Verb[edit]

ሞተ (motä) (prefix conjugation ይሙት (yəmut))

  1. to die

References[edit]

Tigre[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Semitic *mawut-.

Verb[edit]

ሞተ (motä)

  1. to die

References[edit]

  • Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ሞተ”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎[1], Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, pages 134a–135b

Tigrinya[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Semitic *mawut-.

Verb[edit]

ሞተ (motä)

  1. to die