taggunt

Tashelhit

Alternative forms

  • tawwunt, awwun, aggun, tawunt, tagunt, tayyunt

Etymology

Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit تَكُّونْتْ (taggunt, “large rock”), from Proto-Berber *ta-ʔβun-t (“stone, millstone”), ultimately from Proto-Afroasiatic *ʔabun- (“stone, millstone”).

Cognate with Central Atlas Tamazight tawunt, taggʷunt, tagunt (“a type of wooden mallet”), Tamahaq tehunt (“large stone”), tawent (“mill”), Tawellemmet tăhunt, těhunt (“stone”), Tayert těhunt, tëwint (“stone”), Kabyle tawent (“anvil”), Northern Saharan Berber twunt (“a type of stone mortar”), Ghadames oβent (“stone ball for crushing kernels”), Zenaga tuʔnt (“anvil”); Numidian bn (“stone”); Proto-Semitic *ʔabn- (“stone”); Egyptian bnw.t (“millstone”), whence Coptic ⲉⲩⲛⲓ (euni, “mill”); and Proto-Chadic *ʔabVn (“(grinding) stone”)[1].

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taɡːunt/

Noun

taggunt f (construct state tggunt, plural tigguna, masculine equivalent aggun, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⴳⴳⵓⵏⵜ, Arabic spelling تاڭّونت)

  1. large stone, rock
    Synonyms: aẓṛu, ablaḍ, asla
  2. pebble with which women crack argan nuts (aqqa) on a large smooth stone

Derived terms

  • taggunt n umzil (“iron anvil”)
  • taggunt n wanuḍ (“anvil”)

See also

References

  • Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 4 t—ẓ (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/4) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 2373a
  • Maarten Kossmann (1999), Essai sur la phonologie du proto-berbère (Grammatical analyses of african languages; 12) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: ‎Rüdiger Köppe, →ISBN, page 101
  1. ^ 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 47
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