ቀዳማይ

Tigrinya

Tigrinya numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: ሓደ (ḥadä)     Ordinal: ቀዳ፟ማይ (ḳäddamay)

Root
ቀ-ደ-መ (ḳä-dä-mä)
2 terms

Etymology

Cognates include Ge'ez ቀዳሚ (ḳädami) and Tigre ቀዳም (ḳädam).

Adjective

ቀዳ፟ማይ • (ḳäddamay) (feminine ቀዳ፟መይቲ (ḳäddamäyti), plural ቀዳ፟ሞት (ḳäddamot))

1. first
2. preceding
3. foremost

Derived terms

nouns

• ቀዳ፟ማይ ሚኒስተር (ḳäddamay ministär, “prime minister”)
• ቀዳ፟ማይ ረድኤት (ḳäddamay rädʾet, “first aid”)

References

• Yaroslav Gutgarts, Filip Busau (2022), Tigrinisch-Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch [Tigrinya-German-English Dictionary] (overall work in German and English), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 174