ftu

Tashelhit

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber *f-t (“to go, to walk”), from Proto-Afroasiatic *p-t (“to go out, to pass”).

Compare Ghadames sǝftu (“to dictate”), Proto-Chadic *pVt- (“to go (out)”)[1], and Agaw *fät- (“to go, to pass”); Proto-Semitic [Term?], whence Arabic فَاتَ (fāta, “to pass”).

Verb

ftu (intensive aorist fttu or ttftu, verbal noun ifti, Tifinagh spelling ⴼⵜⵓ, Arabic spelling فتو)

  1. to go, walk
    Synonyms: ddu, zzigiz
  2. to pass (time)
    ايفتا فلّي لحال ― ifta flli lḥal ― I'm late.
  3. to dictate
    ايفتا اس يات تبرات ― ifta yas yat tbrat ― He dictated a letter to him.

Derived terms

  • ifti (“sprain,ankylosis”)

See also

References

  1. ^ Olga Stolbova Chadic Lexical Database Issue VI: Labials b, f, p page :172 [[1]]
  • Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 2 f—l (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/2) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 903a
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