nɣ

Tashelhit

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɣ/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Berber *ănɣəʔ (“to kill”).[1]

Cognate with Central Atlas Tamazight ⵏⵖ (nɣ, “to kill”), Kabyle enɣ (“to kill, to murder”), Tarifit neɣ (“to kill, to slaughter, to exhaust”), Ghadames ănn (“to kill”), Awjila ànəɣ (“to kill”), Sokna ōnġ (“to kill”), Tetserret an (“to kill, to beat”), Tuareg ằnɣ (“to kill”), and Zenaga aʔni(ʔ) (“to kill”).

Verb

nɣ (intensive aorist nqqa, preterite nɣa, verbal noun anɣ or tinɣi or timnɣa, Tifinagh spelling ⵏⵖ, Arabic spelling نغ)

  1. to kill
    نتّان ا يتّحيُون يان يرا، آر ينقّا يان يرا.
    nttan a ittḥyun yan ira, ar inqqa yan ira.
    It is He (God) who gives life to whomever He wills and kills whomever He wills.
  2. to hurt, to cause suffer
    Synonym: aɣ
    اينغات يريفي. ― inġa t irifi. ― he's thirsty (lit. thirst hurts him).
    اينغايّي لاژ. ― inġa yyi laẓ. ― I'm hungry (lit. hunger hurts me).
Derived terms
  • iminɣi (“murderer”)
  • mmaɣ (“to fight”)
  • mmnɣ (“to kill each other”)
  • tammaɣt (“fight”)
  • timnɣa (“murder”)
  • tinɣi (“murder, killing”)
  • agstur (“sword”)
  • aɣ (“to hurt”)
  • gʷmr (“to hunt”)
  • mmt (“to die”)
  • ut (“to hit”)
  • ɣrs (“to slaughter”)

Etymology 2

Conjunction

nɣ (Tifinagh spelling ⵏⵖ, Arabic spelling نغ)

  1. alternative form of nɣd (“or”)

References

  1. ^ Lameen Souag. (2021). "How a West African language becomes North African, and vice versa". Linguistic Typology, page 12 →DOI
  • Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 3 m—š (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/3) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1799b
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