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Harari

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Etymology

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From Proto-Semitic *lV-. Some semantics borrowed are from Somali -leh (with, owning). The postpositional instead of prepositional use is also a Cushitic loan; it occurs in Ethiopian Semitic in general the more southern the isolect is, with Harari being the outer extreme of them all, having utterly abated the prepositional use of Proto-Semitic *lV-, left to the historical chronolect called “Old Harari”.

Pronunciation

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Postposition

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-ሌ (-le)

  1. to, towards
  2. for the sake of, with … in mind
    • 1922, “Harari-Studien”, in Enno Littmann, editor, Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete[1], volume 1, page 64 Nr. 228:
      ጋር፡ሓረ፡አንሌ፡ባይቲ፡ከሎትዬው፡የዲጅሌ፡ጋር፡ሓረ።
      gar ḥarä ʾänle bayti kälotyew yädiǧle gar ḥarä.
      He went home for my sake; to get my cap he went home.
  3. used to express circumstances adverbially

Usage notes

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Used after nouns, adjectives, verbal nouns, jussives.

References

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  • Gensler, Orin D. (1997) “Mari Akkadian “to, for” and Preposition-Hopping in the light of comparative Semitic syntax”, in Orientalia[2], volume 66, number 2, pages 138–141
  • Enno Littmann, editor (1922), “Harari-Studien”, in Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete[3] (in Tigre), volume 1, page 83 line 15
  • Enno Littmann, editor (1922), “Harari-Studien”, in Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete[4] (in Tigre), volume 1, page 64 line 29