አጥንት

Amharic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʕaṯ̣m-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈ(ʔ)atʼɨnt/
• Hyphenation: አ‧ጥንት

Noun

አጥንት • (ʾaṭənt) m (plural አጥንቶች (ʾaṭəntočč))

1. bone

Declension

Definiteness forms of አጥንት

	masculine
indefinite	አጥንት (ʾaṭənt)
definite subject	አጥንቱ (ʾaṭəntu)
definite object	አጥንቱን (ʾaṭəntun)
general object	አጥንትን (ʾaṭəntən)

Possessive forms of አጥንት (ʾaṭənt)

		singular	plural	formal
first person		አጥንቴ (ʾaṭənte)	አጥንታችን (ʾaṭəntaččən)	—
second person	m	አጥንትህ (ʾaṭəntəh)	አጥንታችሁ (ʾaṭəntaččəhu)	አጥንትዎ (ʾaṭəntwo)
	f	አጥንትሽ (ʾaṭəntəš)
third person	m	አጥንቱ (ʾaṭəntu)	አጥንታቸው (ʾaṭəntaččäw)
	f	አጥንቷ (ʾaṭəntʷa)

References

• Isenberg, Karl Wilhelm (1841), Dictionary of the Amharic language. Amharic and English‎^[1], London: The Church Missionary Society, page 136
• Kane, Thomas Leiper (1990), “አጥንት”, in Amharic-English Dictionary (in Amharic and English), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 1339
• Leslau, Wolf (1976, 1993), Concise Amharic Dictionary: Amharic-English: English-Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 153
• “አጥንት”, in Amharic Dictionary‎^[2] (overall work in English), Amharic Teacher