Cushitism

English

Etymology

From Cushite +‎ -ism.

Noun

Cushitism (countable and uncountable, plural Cushitisms)

  1. (countable) A word or phrase (construction or idiom) typical of or influenced by a Cushitic language.
    • 1969, Robert Hetzron, The Verbal System of Southern Agaw‎[1], University of California Press, →ISBN, page 74:
      Similar phenomenon is found in Semitic languages of Ethiopia. In Gurage, we find the morpheme t(ä)- with the same distribution: with Imperfect it means “when” and with Perfect “if”. Example in Chaha: tisäβər “when he breaks” (Imperfect) and täsäpärä “if he breaks” (Perfect).3 This a[sic] Cushitism in Ethiopian Semitic.
    • 2011 December 23, Leonid Kogan, “Proto-Semitic Lexicon”, in Stefan Weninger, editor, The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook‎[2], Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 190:
      Har. tullu ‘hill’ is considered a Cushitism in EDH 149.
    • 2023 August 10, Benjamin Suchard, “Is Arabic Cushitic?”, in Benjamin Suchard‎[3], archived from the original on 17 August 2023:
      pronominal *ku, *ti: masculine *ku is a good Cushitic feature. Ge’ez has zə-kku for ‘that (m.)’, but given the absence of specifically masculine *ku elsewhere in Semitic, I’m happy to accept that as a Cushitism.
  2. (uncountable) Cushitic character; Cushiticness.
    • 1989, Cheikh Anta Diop, The Cultural Unity of Black Africa: The Domains of Patriarchy and of Matriarchy in Classical Antiquity‎[4], Karnak House, →ISBN, page 99:
      Whether or not Hammurabi was a Semite from the West or elsewhere, the society which he organised by his legislation was nonetheless impregnated with Cushitism.

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