xaylo
Afar
Etymology
From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Iraqw xwayluw (“to bear”), Oromo dhaluu (“to bear”) and Saho dhala (“birth”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɖajˈlo/ [ɖʌjˈlɔ]
- Hyphenation: xay‧lo
Noun
xayló f (singulative baxá f or báxa m)
- (collective) children, offspring
- 2006, “Ruut 1:3 [Ruth 1:3]”, in Nabuwwa kee malikwa [Prophets and kings][1]:
- Too waqdi kay barra xaylo nammay lih dibuk raqte.
- After that his wife was left alone with her two children.
Declension
| Declension of xayló | |||||||||||
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| absolutive | xayló | ||||||||||
| predicative | xayló | ||||||||||
| subjective | xayló | ||||||||||
| genitive | xayló | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- lab-xayló
See also
- úrru (“children”)
References
- E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “xaylo”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
- 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