ⴰⴽⵓⵛ

Moroccan Amazigh

Etymology

Learned borrowing from a Zenati dialect spoken in Barghwata yakuš ("god"), the third person singular of *ukš or *ekš ("to give"), from Zenati *ewš ("to give"), ultimately from Proto-Berber *ăβkəʔ (“to give”) (whence ⴼⴽ (fk, “to give”).[1] Possibly a Calque of Arabic وهاب (“grantor, donor (God)”)[2]

Noun

ⴰⴽⵓⵛ (akuc) m (construct state ⵡⴰⴽⵓⵛ (wakuc))

  1. god

References

  1. ^ Marijn van Putten (2019), “Introducción al estudio diacrónico del bereber”, in José Juan Batista Rodríguez, editor, Estudios sobre toponimia canaria prehispánica (in Spanish), Academia Canaria De La Lengua, →ISBN, pages 270, 272
  2. ^ René Basset Rapport sur les études berbères et haoussa (1902-1908). Revue africaine, n° 270-271 page 246
  • Maarten Kossmann (2013), The Arabic Influence on Northern Berber (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics; 67), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 79
  • Maarten Kossmann (1999), Essai sur la phonologie du proto-berbère (Grammatical analyses of african languages; 12) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: ‎Rüdiger Köppe, →ISBN, page 99
  • “ⴰⴽⵓⵛ”, in Dictionnaire général de la langue amazighe amazighe-français-arabe, online edition, Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe, 2022
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