asggʷas

Tashelhit

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber *a-săwwas (“year”).

Cognate with Zenaga äššäbbäš (“year”), Ghadames aẓăggas (“year”), Awjila ašəwwáša (“this year”), Siwi asəggasa (“this year”), Nefusa sūggés (“year”), Northern Saharan Berber asəggʷas (“year”), Tuareg ăsv̆ggas (“time, epoch”), and Numidian [script needed] (SBS, “year”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /asɡːʷas/

Noun

asggʷas m (plural isggʷasn, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵙⴳⴳⵯⴰⵙ, Arabic spelling آسڭُّاس)

year
آسڭُّاس اد د يوشكان. ― asggʷas ad d yuškan. ― next year.

آسڭُّاس اد يزرين. ― asggʷas ad izrin. ― last year.

سين يسڭُّاسن اياد. ― sin isggʷasn ayad. ― two years ago.

Inflection

Inflection of **asggʷas**
	singular	plural
free state	asggʷas	isggʷasn
annexed state	usggʷas	isggʷasn

Derived terms

asggʷas n ignna (“HIjri year”)
asggʷas n iṛumiyn (“Gregorian year”)
gar asggʷas, agarsggʷas (“famine year, disastrous year”)

References

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, →DOI, →ISBN, page 410b