ሊሎ

Amharic

ሊሎ።

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlilo/
• Hyphenation: ሊ‧ሎ

Noun

ሊሎ • (lilo) m or f by sense

1. black kite

Declension

Definiteness forms of ሊሎ (lilo)

	Masculine	Feminine
Indefinite	ሊሎ (lilo)
Definite subject	ሊሎው (lilow)	ሊሎዋ (lilowa) ሊሎይቱ (liloyətu) ሊሎይቷ (liloyətʷa)
Definite object	ሊሎውን (lilowən)	ሊሎዋን (lilowan) ሊሎይቱን (liloyətun) ሊሎይቷን (liloyətʷan)
General object	ሊሎን (lilon)

Possessive forms of ሊሎ (lilo)

		Singular	Plural	Formal
First person		ሊሎዬ (liloye)	ሊሎዋችን (lilowaččən)	—
Second person	m	ሊሎህ (liloh)	ሊሎዋችሁ (lilowaččəhu)	ሊሎዎ (lilowo)
	f	ሊሎሽ (liloš)
Third person	m	ሊሎው (lilow)	ሊሎዋቸው (lilowaččäw)
	f	ሊሎዋ (lilowa)

References

• Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “ሊሎ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 39

Ge'ez

Alternative forms

• ሎሎ (lolo)

Etymology

Uncertain. Only attested in Ethiopic Semitic (e.g. Amharic ሊሎ (lilo), Tigrinya [script needed] (lila), and Tigre [script needed] (līlo)), and some Cushitic languages. Perhaps derived from the same root as ሌሊት (lelit, “night”).

Noun

ሊሎ • (lilo) m

1. vulture

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “ሊሎ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ሊሎ”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 314a