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@izmarasan.bsky.social

6 months ago

This name of Ox (kind of) is attested in many languages but only tamacheq has -s

#Tamacheq : Awdes

#Hassaniya : Awdaš

#Tadaksahak : Awdǝš

#Tetserret : Awdoš

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@izmarasan.bsky.social

8 months ago

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#Tamajeq :
- ǝrgǝz = to walk

#Zenaga :
- ižrigiž = to walk
- aragaž = a person

#Hassaniya :
- rawgaž = to walk
- aragaž = a person

It's interesting that hassaniya Arabic borrowed these words from zenaga. And these correspondence look like the semitic root *RGL

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@izmarasan.bsky.social

9 months ago

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Meaning : ox , bull

#Tamajeq : azgar

#Zenaga : azgar

#Hassaniya : awdaš

#Tetserret : awdoš

Azgar is attested in other Amazigh languages and it may be related to Semitic *thwr

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@izmarasan.bsky.social

11 months ago

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Meaning : kind of bur grass, cram-cram

#Tamajeq : agarof

#Tetserret : ineti

#Zenaga : ǝnǝđih

#Hassaniya : inīti

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@izmarasan.bsky.social

11 months ago

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Meaning : Kind of sahelo-saharan tree

#Tetserret : aytǝl

#Zenaga : ađiy

#Hassaniya : atil

This root is possibly related to northern Amazigh ṬL/ḌL which designates grapes

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@izmarasan.bsky.social

1 year ago

How Hassaniya Preserves Ancient Zenaga Words

Here are the names of somes trees

#Zenaga :
ađiy
igǝgi
taẕ̌awẕ̌ǝgt
mǝẕ̌ǝẕ̌i
ganađi

#Hassaniya :
atil
ikik
talawlakǝt
imižiž
aganat

In other hand *atil become aytǝl in tetserret !