ፊት

Amharic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *piʔat-. Cognates include Arabic فِئَة (fiʔa) and Hebrew פֵּאָה.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfit/
  • Hyphenation: ፊት

Noun

ፊት • (fit) m

  1. face
  2. front

Declension

Definiteness forms of ፊት
masculine
indefinite ፊት (fit)
definite subject ፊቱ (fitu)
definite object ፊቱን (fitun)
general object ፊትን (fitən)
Possessive forms of ፊት (fit)
singular plural formal
first person ፊቴ (fite) ፊታችን (fitaččən) —
second person m ፊትህ (fitəh) ፊታችሁ (fitaččəhu) ፊትዎ (fitwo)
f ፊትሽ (fitəš)
third person m ፊቱ (fitu) ፊታቸው (fitaččäw)
f ፊቷ (fitʷa)

Descendants

  • → Tigrinya: ፊት (fit)

References

  • Kane, Thomas Leiper (1990), “ፊት”, in Amharic-English Dictionary (in Amharic and English), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
  • Wolf Leslau (2000), Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 3
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