Due to the fact that the king had only a daughter, Makeda ascends to the throne. Therefore, Makedas queendom is already patriarchal during her reign. The fact that she is subsequently, tricked, seduced or otherwise coerced into having sex with Solomon and then gives birth to a male child can be viewed as a further attempt to squelch any remaining chance for the re-emergence of women's power. Language contains and maintains cultural elements that clearly depict the queendom as matristic. Geez is the parent language of a modern Ethiopian language called Amharic.
Semitic words have three letter roots.
The following is an example of the type of linguistic analysis to be used. The roots of these words would be the same as for Sheba. Therefore, linguistically the words would be related. According to Ethiopian Jewish tradition Sabbath or Shabat is not a day or a number, but the name of the daughter of God. Applying feminist hermeneutics to this linguistic analysis, I posit that contained within this story, as in many fairy tales and legends, is a code that reveals and expresses the powers that women once held in the pre-patriarchal Ethiopia.