አድግ

Ge'ez

Etymology

Connected by Dillmann with Arabic حِدْج (ḥidj, “burden, load”). See also حِداجَة (ḥidāja, “camel saddle”). Found by Jakob Barth again in عِلْج (ʕilj).

Noun

አድግ • (ʾädg)

1. ass, donkey

References

• Dillmann, August (1865) “አድግ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel
• Barth, Jakob (1893) Etymologische Studien zum semitischen insbesondere zum hebräischen Lexicon (in German), Berlin: H. Itzkowski, page 45