ሣጹን
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Ge'ez
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- ሣፁን (śaṣ́un)
Etymology
[edit]Cognate to Tigrinya ሳጹን (saṣun), ሳጽን (saṣən), Amharic ሳጥን (saṭən) of like meaning. Related by Dillmann to Arabic صَانَ (ṣāna, “to preserve, to keep”).
Noun
[edit]ሣጹን • (śaṣun) m or f (plural ሣጹናት (śaṣunat))
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Dillmann, August (1865) “ሣጹን”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 270–271
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ሣጹን”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 537a
- Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft[1] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 55