አንተ

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Amharic

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Etymology

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From Proto-Semitic *ʔanta. Cognates include Ge'ez አንተ (ʾantä) and Arabic أَنْتَ (ʔanta).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈ(ʔ)antə/
  • Hyphenation: አን‧ተ

Pronoun

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አንተ (ʾantäm

  1. thou, you (singular)

See also

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References

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  • Thomas Leiper Kane (1990) “አንተ”, in Amharic-English Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
  • Wolf Leslau (2000) Introductory Grammar of Amharic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 17

Ge'ez

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Etymology

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From Proto-Semitic *ʔanta.

Pronoun

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አንተ (ʾantäm sg (enclitic form (-kä))

  1. you, thou (masculine singular subject pronoun)

See also

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References

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  • August Dillmann, Carl Bezold (1857, 1899) James A. Crichton, transl., Ethiopic Grammar[1], 2nd edition, London: Williams & Norgate, published 1907, page 338
  • Wolf Leslau (1988) Fifty Years of Research: Selection of articles on Semitic, Ethiopian Semitic and Cushitic, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 162