idammn

Tashelhit

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Afroasiatic *dam-
Proto-Berber *i-damm-ăn
Tashelhit idammn

    Inherited from Proto-Berber *i-damm-ăn (“blood”),[1] from Proto-Afroasiatic *dam-.

    Cognate with Zenaga əḏämmän (“blood”), Ghadames dămmăn (“blood”), Proto-Chadic *dVm- (“blood”)[2], and Proto-Semitic *dam- (“blood”).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /idamːn/

    Noun

    idammn pl (construct state idammn or yidammn, Tifinagh spelling ⵉⴷⴰⵎⵎⵏ, Arabic spelling ايدامّن)

    1. blood
      آر يسّودوم وفوس نّس س يدامّن. ― ar issudum ufus nns s idammn. ― his arm is bleeding.

    Derived terms

    • bu idammn (“barber”)
    • ngi s idammn (“to bleed”)

    References

    1. ^ Marijn van Putten (2011), Nouns of the CVC and CC type in Berber (Thesis), The Netherlands: Leiden University, page 25
    2. ^ Olga Stolbova (2016), Этимологический словарь чадских языков [Etymological dictionary of the Chadic languages]‎[1], Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 101
    • 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 1033a
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