yíktǝb

Verb v.

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Français: Écrire
English: to write
العربية: يكتب

Source : Ag Abdoussalam (s. d.), p. 40 — English and Arabic meanings translated from French, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). yíktǝb (to write). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1284-yikteb (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctaryiktb,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{yíktǝb (to write)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1284-yikteb},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… onsistent en une consonne préfixée (par exemple s(ǝ)- 'causatif'). Dans de tels contextes, le /y-/ initial est abandonné et la consonne dérivative le remplace. Yíktǝb 'écrire' devient s-ǝktǝb 'faire écrire'. Notez que la réalisation de la première voyelle est maintenant schwa. Un phénomène similaire se produit avec les préfixes flexionnels composés uniquement d'une consonne, par exemple b- 'imperfectif' et m- 'subjonctif'. Les racines songhay à quatre initiales présentent le …

Ag Abdoussalam (s. d.), Structure grammaticale d’un parler berbéro-songhay du nord-est malien (tadaksahak) : éléments de linguistique, p. 40
… Tadaksahak consist of a prefixed consonant (e.g. s(ǝ)- ‘causative’). In such contexts, the initial /y-/ is dropped and the derivational consonant replaces it. yíktǝb ‘to write’ becomes s-ǝktǝb ‘to make write’. Note that the realization of the first vowel is now schwa. A similar phenomenon occurs with inflectional prefixes consisting of only a consonant, e.g. b- ‘imperfective’ and m- ‘subjunctive’. The four y-initial Songhay roots expose the same behavior as the Tamasheq cogn …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 70
… to butt yískǝl m-ǝskǝl to take away to change against yíbdǝd n-ǝbdǝd to be held up to stand together yíɣbǝṛ n-ǝɣbǝṛ to squeeze between to squeeze self between yíktǝb n-ǝktǝb to write to write each other yírkǝb n-ǝrkǝb to pull to pull from s.th. yírdǝf n-ǝrdǝf to be unhooked to hook with yírzǝm n-ǝrzǝm to hang around to cramp s.th. yímbǝz n-ǝmbǝz to disperse to be dispersed among gǝrtǝttǝf nǝ-gǝrtǝttǝf to stumble to stumble kǝrǝbǝt nǝ-kǝrǝbǝt to join to join tǝltǝl mǝ-tǝltǝl …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 80

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