urru

Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈurːu/ [ˈʔʊrːʊ]
  • Hyphenation: ur‧ru

Noun

úrru m (singulative áwka m or awká f, plural urritté f or urruuteetá f)

  1. (collective) children

Declension

        Declension of úrru      
absolutive úrru
predicative úrru
subjective urrí
genitive urrí
  Postpositioned forms
l-case úrrul
k-case úrruk
t-case úrrut
h-case úrruh

Derived terms

See also

  • xayló (“children, offspring”)

References

  • E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “ùrru”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
  • Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle; Mohamed Hassan Kamil (August 2013), “Gender, Number and Agreement in Afar (Cushitic language)”, in 43rd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics‎[2], Leiden: Leiden University
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