axyam

Senhaja de Srair

Alternative forms

Etymology

Probably from Arabic خيمة (ḵayma, “tent”), though the semantic development from "tent" to "room, house" is problematic. Alternatively, from the Proto-Berber root *ɣ-m, and thus related to qqim (“to sit, to stay”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aχjam/

Noun

axyam m (plural ixyamen, feminine equivalent taxyamt, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵅⵢⴰⵎ)

  1. house, home
    Synonym: dcar
    Axyam inneryeb. ― The house got destroyed.
  2. immediate family, household
    Synonym: ddexya

Declension

Inflection of axyam
singular plural
free state axyam ixyamen
annexed state uxyam ixyamen

References

  • Gutova, Evgeniya; Byler, Jonathan (2025), “Senhaja de Srair - English Dictionary”, in Webonary‎[1], retrieved 2025
  • Gutova, Evgeniya (2021) Senhaja Berber Varieties: Phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax (Thesis)‎[2], Paris, France: HAL
  • Maarten Kossmann (2013), The Arabic Influence on Northern Berber (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics; 67), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN
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