asif

Inherited from Proto-Berber *a-sif / *a-suf (“river”).

• IPA^(key): /asif/

asif m (plural isaffen)

1. river; wadi

• Association Culturelle Numidya (2025), “Amawal, dictionnaire kabyle-français en ligne”, in Amawal‎^[1], retrieved 2025
• Dallet, Jean-Marie (1982), Dictionnaire kabyle-français: parler des At Mangellat, Algérie (in French), Paris, France

Inherited from Proto-Berber *a-sif / *a-suf (“river”).

• IPA^(key): /asif/

asif m (plural isaffen, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵙⵉⴼ)

1. river

   Synonym: iɣzer

• Gutova, Evgeniya; Byler, Jonathan (2025), “Senhaja de Srair - English Dictionary”, in Webonary‎^[2], retrieved 2025
• Gutova, Evgeniya (2021) Senhaja Berber Varieties: Phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax (Thesis)‎^[3], Paris, France: HAL

Inherited from Proto-Berber *a-sif / *a-suf (“river”)^[1].

Compare Ghomara, Kabyle, Senhaja de Srair, and Central Atlas Tamazight asif (“river”), Nefusa usə̀f (“stream, river”), Northern Saharan Berber and Tunisian Berber suf (“river”), and also Northern Saharan Berber asafi (“basin, pond”).

• IPA^(key): /asif/

asif m (construct state wasif, plural isaffn, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵙⵉⴼ, Arabic spelling آسيف)

1. river, wadi

   ايغ ينڭي واسيف ن سوس، اور اد ت يزڭر يان.

   iġ ingi wasif n sus, ur at t izgr yan.

   when the Wadi sus rises, no one can cross it.

• 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 419b

Unknown. In the Umbrian, the Italic ending "-ns" transformed into the accusative plural form "-f." Thus, this term has been interpreted as an accusative plural to ensure consistency with Umbrian linguistic developments. The original form of the term, in an older variant of Volscian, may have been *āsins. It may also be connected to Latin assēs, Latin ovēs, Latin ārās, or Latin asserēs. Another proposal holds that the term is a participle form cognate to Latin ārēns (“drying, withering”), Latin assāns (“roasting”), and Umbrian aso. If so, it would derive from Proto-Italic *assos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ed-. The linguist Blanca María Prósper suggested that the term may connect to a Proto-Italic or Pre-Proto-Italic verb phrase reconstructed as "*atˢtom ferō."

asif (accusative plural)

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: coins, sheep, beams, altars

asif (past passive participle nominative singular)

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: burned, roasted

• Poultney, James W. (1951), “Volscians and Umbrians”, in The American Journal of Philology‎^[4], volume 72, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, page 114
• Prósper, Blanca María (2022), “The Tabula Veliterna: A Sacred Law from Central Italy”, in Rivista Italiana di Linguistica e di Dialettologia, volume 24, pages 23-25
• Conway, Robert Seymour (1897), The Italic Dialects: Edited with a Grammar and Glossary‎^[5], Cambridge University Press, page 602