dalci-waara

Afar

Dalci-waará.

Etymology

Literally: "Eternal life of a striped hyena", reanalysed as a feminine noun. Traditionally, the aardwolf was thought to be as a shrunken (from old age) striped hyena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dalħiwaːˈra/, [dʌlħɪwaːˈɾʌ]
• Hyphenation: dal‧ci‧waa‧ra

Noun

dalci-waará f 

1. aardwolf (Proteles cristatus)

Declension

Declension of dalci-waará
absolutive	dalci-waará
predicative	dalci-waará
subjective	dalci-waará
genitive	dalci-waará
Postpositioned forms l-case dalci-waarál k-case dalci-waarák t-case dalci-waarát h-case dalci-waaráh

References

• Didier Morin (2012) “dalci-waara”, in Dictionnaire afar-français (Djibouti, Erythrée, Ethiopie), Karthala, →ISBN, page 271