tigmmi

Tashelhit

Etymology

Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit تِيڮمِّ (tigemmi, “house”), the verbal noun of Proto-Berber *g-m (“to grow”).

Compare Kabyle tigemmi (“cultivated land”), Nefusa tigemmi (“garden”) Tuareg aǧama (“countryside, any land cultivated or not”), Central Atlas Tamazight ⵜⵉⴳⵎⵎⵉ (tigmmi, “douar, group of tents arranged in a circle”), Tarifit aseymi (“infant”), Northern Saharan Berber tigmi (“growth”), and tagemmi (“forest”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tiɡmːi/
  • Audio (Agadir):(file)

Noun

tigmmi f (plural tigʷmma, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⵉⴳⵎⵎⵉ, Arabic spelling تيڭمّي)

  1. house, abode
    اور داري كمّلن يقاريضن ماس سّاغغ تڭمّي.
    ur dari kmmln iqariḍn ma s ssaġeġ tigmmi.
    I don't have enough money to buy a house.
  2. (metonymic) family
    Synonyms: tawja, takat

Inflection

Inflection of tigmmi
singular plural
free state tigmmi tigʷmma, tigumma
annexed state tgmmi tgʷmma

Descendants

  • → Moroccan Amazigh: ⵜⵉⴳⵎⵎⵉ (tigmmi, “house, douar”)

Derived terms

  • igmmi (“large beautiful house”)
  • tigmmi n lmxzn (“sultan's palace”)
  • tigmmi n lqaḍi (“court”)
  • tigmmi n tuḍfin (“anthill”)

See also

References

  • 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 2660
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.