ክት
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Tigre
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Akin to Arabic كَيْتَ (kayta, “thus”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]ክት • (kət)
- thus, now that, this being so
- 1910, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume I: Tales, customs, names and dirges of the Tigrē tribes: Tigrē text[1], Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 6 line 19:
- translated Enno Littmann, editor (1910), Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume II: Tales, customs, names and dirges of the Tigrē tribes: English translation.[2] (in Tigre), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 7
References
[edit]- Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ክት”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)[3], Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, pages 412a–b
- Raz, Shlomo (1983) Tigre grammar and texts (Afroasiatic Dialects; 4), Malibu: Undena Publications, →ISBN, page 87