Faransaawi

Afar

Etymology

From Arabic فَرَنْسَاوِيّ (faransāwiyy).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /faranˈsaːwi/ [fʌɾʌnˈsaːwɪ]
  • Hyphenation: Fa‧ran‧saa‧wi

Noun

Faransáawi m (singulative Faransaawíita m or Faransaawiitá f)

  1. (collective) Frenchmen, French people

Declension

        Declension of Faransáawi      
absolutive Faransáawi
predicative Faransáawi
subjective Faransaawí
genitive Faransaawí
  Postpositioned forms
l-case Faransáawil
k-case Faransáawik
t-case Faransáawit
h-case Faransáawih

References

  • E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “faransaàwi”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle; Mohamed Hassan Kamil (August 2013), “Gender, Number and Agreement in Afar (Cushitic language)”, in 43rd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics‎[1], Leiden: Leiden University
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
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