tazzwit

Tashelhit

Alternative forms

  • tazwit, tazdwit

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber *ta-zizwǝtt (“bee”)[1], ultimately of onomatopoeic origin.

Cognate with Ghomara tazizwa (“bee”), Central Atlas Tamazight ⵜⵉⵣⵉⵣⵡⵉⵜ (tizizwit, “bee”), Tunisian Berber, Kabyle, and Senhaja de Srair tizizwit (“bee”), Nefusa tezizwi (“bee”), and Zenaga tiˀžižbäh (“bee”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tazːwit/

Noun

tazzwit f (plural tizzwa, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵣⵣⵡⵉⵜ, Arabic spelling تازّويت)

  1. bee
    يات تزّويت ورا تسكار تامّنت.
    yat tzzwit ur a tskar tammnt.
    One bee alone doesn’t make honey.

Inflection

Inflection of tazzwit
singular plural
free state tazzwit tizzwa
annexed state tzzwit tzzwa

Derived terms

  • agllid n tzzwa (“queen bee”)

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 2627a
  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 263
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