Concise dictionary of Ge⁽ez (classical Ethiopic)
Edition: Concise dictionary of Ge⁽ez (classical Ethiopic)
Publisher: O. Harrassowitz
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Wiesbaden-Germany
Number of pages: 247
Copyright date: 1989
Other titles: No
Description: Comparative Dictionary of Ge<ez
(Classical Ethiopic)
Ge'ez-English I English-Ge'ez
with an index of the Semitic roots
by
Wolf Leslau
1991
OTTO HAR RASSOW ITZ . WIESBADEN
INTRODUCTION
Geez is .t~e cla~sl ca l language of Ethiopia and belongs to the Sem1\lc language family. The
other Semlllc.EthlOplan languages are Tigre and Tignnya (known as North Ethioplc), Amhanc
(the national language of Et hIo pia), Argobba, Ha ran, Gafat, and Gurage (called South
EthlOplC). Although Geez ceased to be spoken in the twelfth or thirteenth century. It has:
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: INTRODUCTION; title: Observations on the dictionaries X Composition of the Sawa~w xv Translallons of; title: the native sources XVlI Misprints and unusual patterns XVIII Orthography XIX; title: Transcription XX Transcnption of Geez and of Semitic xx Summary of the; title: transcription symbols XXI Entries XXI Comparaisons and etymologies XXII; title: Loanwords XXIV Con espondence between Geez and the other Semitic-Ethiopian languages; title: XXV Correspondence between Geez and some Semitic languages XXVlt Sources for; title: the Semitic languages XXVIII Sources for the Semitic-Ethiopian languages XXVlI1; title: Sources for the non-Semitic-Ethiopian languages XXVIII Acknowledgments XXIX; title: ABBREVIATIONS OF THE GE'EZ SOURCES . . . XXXI; title: ABBREVIATIONS OF PERIODICALS. LANGUAGES AND GRAMMATICAL TERMS; title: Periodicals XXXlI1 Grammatical terms XXXV Languages XXXV; title: BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . • • XXXVII; title: GE'EZ-ENGLISH VOCABULARY . • • • . • • • 1; title: ADDITIONS • . . • • • • • • • • &IS; title: ENGUSH-GE<EZ VOCABU LARY . • • • . • . • 611; title: INDEX OF SEMITIC ROOTS • . • • • . . • . • • • • • 763