iḍ

Tarifit

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber *éβăḍ (night).

Compare Central Atlas Tamazight ⵉⴹ (iḍ, night), Tashelhit iḍ (night), Tuareg éhăḍ (night), Ghadames ēβăḍ (night), Zenaga īḏ̣ (night), Awjila avoṭ (night).

Noun

iḍ m (Tifinagh spelling ⵉⴹ)

  1. night
    Synonym: ǧiřet

Derived terms

  • iḍennaḍ (yesterday)
  • iḍa (nowadays)

Tashelhit

Etymology

Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit ايط (iḍ, night), from Proto-Berber *eβăḍ (night)[1], ultimately from Proto-Afroasiatic.

Cognate with Tuareg éhăḍ (night), Ghadames ēβăḍ (night), Zenaga īḏ̣ (night), Awjila avoṭ (night), Tetserret ayaḍ (night), Tarifit iḍ (night); Proto-Chadic *bVd- (night)[2], Proto-Cushitic *b-d, whence Beja báda (twilight hour), and Somali baaday (to be late, to stay overnight).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /idˤ/

Noun

iḍ m (construct state yiḍ, plural aḍan, Tifinagh spelling ⵉⴹ, Arabic spelling ايض)

  1. night
    تاوّوري نّس يڭاتّ ا يتعسّيس ف تڭُمّا دي ييض
    tawwuri nns iga tt a ittɛssis f tgʷmma ḍyyiḍ
    His job consists of guarding the houses at night.

Inflection

Inflection of iḍ
singular plural
free state iḍ aḍan
annexed state yiḍ waḍan

Derived terms

  • ayt waḍan (jinn)
  • aɣʷẓn n yiḍ (ogre)
  • di yiḍ (at night)
  • iḍgam (yesterday)
  • iḍlli (yesterday)

See also

  • ass (day)
  • ayyur (moon, month)
  • azal (daylight)
  • imnsi (dinner)
  • tillas (darkness)
  • timnsiwin (goodnight)

References

  1. ^ Marijn van Putten (2011), Nouns of the CVC and CC type in Berber (Thesis), The Netherlands: Leiden University, page 21
  2. ^ Olga Stolbova, Chadic Lexical Database Issue VI: Labials b, f, p page :44 [[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 1038b