m-ǝzǝg

Verb v.

Translations

Français: Faire une course (chameau)
English: to race (camel)
العربية: يتسابق (جمل)

Source : Christiansen-Bolli (2010), p. 55 — French and Arabic meanings translated from English, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). m-ǝzǝg (to race (camel)). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1331-m-ezeg (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctarrace,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{m-ǝzǝg (to race (camel))}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1331-m-ezeg},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… (V)s(V)- (11) root contains voiced alveolar fricative voiced palatal fricative voiceless palatal fricative elsewhere Sibilant harmony verb root causative gloss m-ǝzǝg 1 zǝ-mm-ǝzǝg to race a race (camel) / to be made to race m-íʒi 1 ʒí-mm-iʒi to be separated / to separate

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 73
… nant of the prefix. Verbs beginning with ‘core’ consonants add a syllable with a vowel of the same quality as the rest of the root. Note 1: For both, m-íʒi and m-ǝzǝg an initial /m-/ morpheme with a semantic “middle”-component are recognizable. They are no longer separable from the root. *yíʒi and *yízǝg do not exist. Adding a morpheme to the root, which equals an extra syllable in some cases, causes stress shifts. The stress is on the causative morpheme syllable unless this …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 74

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