agllid
Tashelhit
Etymology
Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit اكَلِّيدْ (agellid, “king”)[1], from Proto-Berber *a-ǵăllid (“king”)[2].
Cognate with Tarifit ajeǧid (“king”), Ghadames ašăllid (“king”), Awjila agǝllìd (“head of a tribe, gentleman”), and Numidian gld (“king”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aɡlːid/
Noun
agllid m (construct state ugllid, plural igldan, feminine equivalent tagllidt, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴳⵍⵍⵉⴷ, Arabic spelling آڭلّيد)
- king, sultan
- ايكابر وكشّوض، ايكّا اس ربّي وشاقّور؛ ايكابر وڭلّيد، ايكّا اس ربّي ليّام
- ikabr ukccuḍ, ikka as ṛbbi ucaqqur; ikabr ugllid, ikka as ṛbbi liyyam
- However proud wood may be, God sent it the saw; however proud a king may be, God brought him down.
- ڭ اڭلّيد ن على خير
- G agllid n ɛlaxir
- Be in good condition (litt. be a king of well-being).
Derived terms
- agllid n tagant (“panther”)
- agllid n tzzwa (“queen bee", "litt. king of the bees"”)
- angllid (“royal”)
- iwis ugllid (“prince”)
- lukil ugllid (“minister”)
- tagldit (“kingdom”)
- tagllidt (“queen”)
See also
References
- ^ Ibn Tunart (a. 1172), Kitāb Al-Asmā’[1], sourced from Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme, Cité numérique de la Méditerranée (Cinumed), page 22
- ^ 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, page 251
- Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 1 a—e (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/1) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, , →ISBN, page 136b
- 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 145