Háy

Verb vt.

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Français: Enfanter
English: To give birth
العربية: تلد

Source : the site’s first dictionary (Labile verbs)

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). Háy (To give birth). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/137-hay (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctargive,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{Háy (To give birth)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/137-hay},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… k to be buried fik-fik-án kan to be sweet kaŋ-kan-án kos to be cut kos-kos-án ṭay to be wet ṭay-ṭay-án waṣ to be boiling waṣ-waṣ-án boy to move camp boy-boy-án hay to give birth hay-hay-án wa to be healed wa-w(a)-án ʃi to be lost ʃi-ʃʃi-án Irregular adjectives Quite a number of frequently used adjectives appear in several forms. They are all Songhay cognates. It should be noted that this variation is found in real language use, and not due to the medium of elicitation. The fo …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 155
… and then does not mark it with dative se. (108) a) i₌yyabúk 3p₌be.at.point.of bun die.VN sé. DAT they were at the point of dying. b) a₌yyabúk 3s₌be.at.point.of hay give.birth.VN sé. DAT she (female camel) was at the point of giving birth. ‘be close to’ mán (109) hawú cow a₌mmán háy 3s₌be.close give.birth.VN the cow is close to giving birth. ‘learn’yílmǝd (110) a₌yyílmǝd 3s₌learn didá. walk.VN he learned to walk. ‘be able to’ dǝbǝt

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 206
… e gap strategy, the locative postposition occurs immediately after the head noun (‘place’, in example (19)). (19) A-f-kaykay har a-Ø-guna edag [# ka tahart a-Ø-hay]. 3S-IMPF-walk until 3S-PERF-see place LOC lioness 3S-PERF-give.birth She walked around till she saw a place where a lioness had given birth. In the following example of the gap strategy, the constituent modified by ka presents the source of the water. The head noun (‘a sprinkle of rain’) is the third and oblique a …

Christiansen & Levinsohn (2003), Relative Clauses in Tadaksahak, p. 7
… following example, for instance, the referent of the understood head noun is specified earlier in the sentence. (54) A-Ø-ṭaw-an in hawyen, a-Ø-dini [aɣo-Ø-man hay-an] 3S-PERF-reach-ALL 3P.GEN cows 3S-PERF-take REL-PERF-be.close birth-ADJZ He reached their cows, took the one that was pregnant… In the following example, the headless relative clause relates back to an earlier relative clause whose head is modified by the quantifier itila ‘each’ (see sec. 3.2). (55) Sa itila aru …

Christiansen & Levinsohn (2003), Relative Clauses in Tadaksahak, p. 13

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