" to make soft "
#Tamajeq : issəlmaḍ
#Tamazight: issilwiɣ
#Tetserret : iššǝḷwa
#Zenaga : yažgaygam
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What happens with the plural of the word "name" in Western Amazigh languages ?
#Zenaga : i'šǝm , pl: assaṃṃun
#Tetserret : ešǝm , pl: ǝssǝmun
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Western Amazigh languages have some word that are very weird .
Like the word for " back "
#Zenaga : amarẓih
#Tetserret : marṣayən
In many Amazigh languages its aruru/aruri/aɛrur .
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Meaning :
- What
- Why
- How
#Tamajeq :
- Ma
- Mafel
- Məs
#Tetserret :
- Məd
- Madaf
- Məš
#Zenaga :
- Tak
- Takaf
- Kaš
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#Zenaga :
- kayđ yaskar
- tak ayđ yinabba
#Tetserret :
- mǝd iskor
- mǝd inabba
Meaning :
- What did he do ?
- What is he saying?
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Meaning : i have
#Tamajeq : ǝleɣ
#Tetserret : ilak
#Zenaga : iyag
In some Tamahaq dialect and also in many Amazigh language we can say /ɣuri/ ( with me) to mean 'i have'
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Meaning : He sent
#Tamajeq : issǝgla
#Tetserret : yašǝɣda
#Zenaga : yašwađah / yažžuɣđah
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Meaning : Shepherd
#Northern_Amazigh : Ameksa/Anilti (with variants)
#Tamajeq : Amaḍan
#Zenaga : Amakšah
#Tetserret : Amǝkkaš
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Meaning : the fact of digging a well
#Tamajeq : Eɣez n aṇu
#Tetserret : Tawwǝžu n omǝž
#Zenaga : To'žih n amuž
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Meaning : sight , the look
#Northern_Amazigh : iẓri
#Zenaga : aẓ̄ari
#Tetserret : iṣar
* Tetserret lost the final vowel in many words
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Meaning : To forget
#Tamajeq : aṭṭaw
#Tetserret : aɣlǝd
#Zenaga : aɣyid
Rare case where Tetserret and Zenaga retain the *ɣ
But if its a loan from another language the borrowing probably took place at a time when these two languages were in contact .
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The word for 'teeth'
#Morrocan_tamazight : uxsan
#Zenaga : ukšan
#Tetserret : ukšan
Tamajeq has 'išenan' attested in many other Amazigh languages and has cognat even in other Afro-asiatic languages so what is the 'XS' word ? An innovation ?
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#Tamajeq: odmeɣ-as
#Zenaga: aḍmag-ayš
#Tetserret: aḍḍamak-šad
Meaning : i think that
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Meaning : pain, suffering
#Tetserret : Tek
#Zenaga : Tikt/Tigt
#Atlas_tamazight : Tixt
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Amazigh root : GM
Meaning : to grow up
#Mzab : ǧem
#Ghadames : eǧm
#Tamazight : gem
#Tetserret : egm
#Zenaga : agmi
This word is surprisingly attested in Tetserret but not in Tamajeq which has another word 'ǝdwǝl'
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The plural of ehan/in (tent, house)
#Tamacheq : ihanan
#Tamajeq : inan
#Zenaga : anan
#Tetserret : anan
I don't know what about tamahaq but if the name of the Tuaregs queen Tin-hinan mean 'she of tents' I wonder why it's -hinan and not -hanan 🤔
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He is sitting in the house /tent
#Tamacheq : iqqima daɣ ehan
#Tamajeq : iqqim daɣ ehan
#Zenaga : ya'ma dagg in
#Tetserret : yaɛɛayim gud in
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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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Amazigh word
Meaning : rest, resting
#Kabyle : asgunfu
#Wargla : asgenfu
#Tamazight : asgunfa
#Zenaga : a'škǝnfih
#Tetserret : šakanfa
#Tamajeq : tasaṇfot
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Meaning : he sent
#Tamajeq : isǝgla
#Tetserret : yašǝɣda
#Zenaga : yašwaḏah / yažžuɣḏah
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Meaning : Back (body part)
#Tamacheq : arori
#Tamajeq : aruru
#Tadaksahak : aruuru
#Tetserret : marṣayǝn
#Zenaga : amarẓ̄ih
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#Tamajeq :
- igǝg
- ihǝẓ
#Tetserret :
- nǝbbag
- anuwaṣ
#Zenaga :
- ǝbg
- anīẓ
Meaning :
- distance, being far
- proximity, being near
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Another case :
'He washed'
#Tamajeq : iššorad
#Tetserret : issǝrǝd
#Zenaga : yassǝrad
Here the /s/ become /š/ in tamajeq but not in zenaga and tetserret
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Meaning : To know
#Tamajeq: ǝssǝṇ
#Tetserret: essǝn
#Zenaga: assǝn
It's interesting that in this case the /s/ did not become /š/ in zenaga tetserret.
But it does in the nominal form ta'wašnih/tǝmušna
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Meaning : Calf
#Tamajeq : abarkaw
#Zenaga : irku
#Tetserret : ligoḍ
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#Tamajeq :
- iḍǝḍwan
- šinšawen
#Zenaga :
- duɣḍan
- tifiđnanin
#Tetserret :
- aḍǝgḍan
- tǝkǝrmǝšuten
#Tadaksahak :
- kamben
- takirmušitan
Meaning :
- fingers
- toes
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Meaning : a door
#Tamajeq : tǝsǝhǝrt
#Tetserret : tǝšurt
#Zenaga : taššurt
In these three languages this word is built on a derivative form with the prefix s/š. But this is not the case in the other Amazigh languages .
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#Tamajeq :
- falli
- fallana
- fallawan
- fallasan
#Tetserret :
- af
- afank
- afwǝn
- afšǝn
#Zenaga :
- affi
- afnag
- afkun
- afšan
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#Tamajeq : taẓǝft
#Tetserret : taṣǝḍ
#Tadaksahak : taṣṣǝḍ
#Zenaga : taẓ̄uḍ
#ZenagaH : tahuḍ
Meaning : an axe
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#Tamajeq :
- takoba
- almoši
#Tetserret :
- težǝd
- tǝfaṛit
#Zenaga :
- ti'žađ
- aymošši / tǝfari'đ
Meaning :
- sword
- knife
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