tamẓa

Tarifit

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber *ta-mẓ-a (“ogress”)[1].

Cognate with Nefusa tamẓâ (“ogress”), Ghadames tamẓa (“ogress”), Awjila tàmẓa (“ogress”), Northern Saharan Berber tamza (“ogress”), and Siwi əmzā (“ogre”).

Noun

tamẓa m (plural tamẓiwin or timẓiwin, masculine equivalent amẓiw, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵎⵥⴰ)

  1. ogress

Declension

Inflection of tamẓa
singular plural
free state tamẓa tamẓiwin
annexed state tamẓa tamẓiwin

References

  1. ^ Marijn van Putten (2019), “Introducción al estudio diacrónico del bereber”, in José Juan Batista Rodríguez, editor, Estudios sobre toponimia canaria prehispánica (in Spanish), Academia Canaria De La Lengua, →ISBN, page 304
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