léelaw

Noun n.

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Français: Parole
English: speech
العربية: كلام

Source : Christiansen-Bolli (2010), p. 101 ; p. 245 — French and Arabic meanings translated from English, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). léelaw (speech). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1546-leelaw (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctarleelaw,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{léelaw (speech)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1546-leelaw},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… s relative (family) a-báktaw i-bákt-an old cushion a-ʃígnaw i-ʃígn-an thread (sew) ée-caw í-cc-an root áfraw áfr-an ~ í-fr-an feather; wing cíidaw cíid-an bird léelaw léel-an speech a-máaṛaw Monosyllabic Songhay cognates do not lose the final /w/, i.e. ‘insult’ wâw / wáaw-en ‘female camel’ yáw / yaaw-én. /y/ final nouns show more variety in behavior than the /w/ final nouns described above. For Songhay cognates the suffix /-en/ is expected. This is illustrated under (a) below …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 119
… havior of Tadaksahak agar is remarkably similar to that of /erk/ ‘bad’ in Tamasheq. (113) Nouns found with agar agár borá bad person agár farká bad donkey agar léelaw slander agar a-hándag difficult/dangerous place agar káykay morally bad behavior agar íi-m-an dizzy spell agar ‘bad’ does not agree in number or gender with the noun it modifies. This is shown by the last example, agar íi-m-an which contains the plural noun íi-m-an ‘life, soul’, and by forms such as agar t-ǝ-mga …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 136

léelaw

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