timessi

Tarifit

Etymology

From Proto-Berber [Term?]. The root has been reconstructed to *ms. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Compare Kabyle timess (“fire, hell”), Tachawit times (“fire, hell”), Northern Saharan Berber timsi (“fire, hell”), Siwi temsi (“fire, hell”), Nefusa temsi (“fire, fireplace”), Sokna timsi (“fire”), Tuareg temse (“fire”).

Noun

timessi f (Tifinagh spelling ⵜⵉⵎⴻⵙⵙⵉ, usually uncountable)

  1. fire, flame, blaze
  2. spark
  3. hearth (of fire)
  4. fever

Declension

Inflection of timessi
singular plural
free state timessi -
construct state tmessi -
  • timisit (“flint”)
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