ክት

Tigre

Alternative forms

• ክቴ (kəte), ክቴኒ (kəteni)

Etymology

Akin to Arabic كَيْتَ (kayta, “thus”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɨt]

Adverb

ክት • (kət)

1. 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

• 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