አንተ
Amharic
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *ʔanta. Cognates include Ge'ez አንተ (ʾantä) and Arabic أَنْتَ (ʔanta).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈ(ʔ)antə/
- Hyphenation: አን‧ተ
Pronoun
አንተ • (ʾantä) m
See also
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| m | f | m | f | ||
| familiar singular | እኔ (ʾəne) | አንተ (ʾantä) | አንቺ (ʾanči) | እሱ (ʾəssu) እርሱ (ʾərsu) |
እሷ (ʾəssʷa) እርሷ (ʾərsʷa) |
| plural | እኛ (ʾəñña) | እናንተ (ʾənnantä) እናንት (ʾənnantə)1) |
እነሱ (ʾənnässu) እነርሱ (ʾənnärsu) | ||
| formal singular | — | እስዎ (ʾəssəwo) እርስዎ (ʾərsəwo) አንቱ (ʾantu)1) |
እሳቸው (ʾəssaččäw) እርሳቸው (ʾərsaččäw) | ||
1) rare
References
- 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
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *ʔanta.
Pronoun
አንተ • (ʾantä) m sg (enclitic form ከ (-kä))
See also
| isolated nominative pronouns | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| 1st person | አነ (ʾanä) | ንሕነ (nəḥna) | |
| 2nd person | m | አንተ (ʾantä) | አንትሙ (ʾantəmu) |
| f | አንቲ (ʾanti) | አንትን (ʾantən) | |
| 3rd person | m | ውእቱ (wəʾətu) | ውእቶሙ (wəʾətom), እሙንቱ (ʾəmuntu) |
| f | ይእቲ (yəʾəti) | ውእቶን (wəʾəton), እማንቱ (ʾəmantu) | |
| enclitic accusative and genitive pronouns | |||
| singular | plural | ||
| 1st person | የ (-yä), ኒ (-ni)1 | ነ (-nä) | |
| 2nd person | m | ከ (-kä) | ክሙ (-kəmmu) |
| f | ኪ (-ki) | ክን (-kən) | |
| 3rd person | m | ሁ (-(h)u)2 | ሆሙ (-(h)omu)2 |
| f | ሃ (-(h)a)2 | ሆን (-(h)on)2 | |
References
- 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