Intáynawt

Noun n.

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Français: Chacal (qui tue les chevreaux)
English: Jackal (that kills kids)
العربية: ابن آوى (الذي يقتل الجديان)

Source : the site’s first dictionary (Tale)

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). Intáynawt (Jackal (that kills kids)). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/165-intaynawt (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctarintaynawt,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{Intáynawt (Jackal (that kills kids))}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/165-intaynawt},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… ‘to be killed’ nemanɣa ‘to beat each other’ nămănɣu ‘to kill each other’ ‘to cause to beat each ‘to cause to kill senemanɣa sănnămănɣu other’ each other’ (33) Intaynawt a-b-wi iɣidan. jackal 3s-TAM-kill kid.PL ‘The jackal kills kids.’ (34) Amanokal a-Ø-sasuwanɣa ayn azango. chief 3s-TAM-CAUS.kill 3s.GEN enemy ‘The chief had his enemy killed.’ (35) Aɣid a-Ø-tuwanɣa. kid 3s-TAM-PASS.kill ‘The kid was killed.’ (36) Aɣay, aɣ-te-tuwanɣa maradoda 1s.emph 1s-TAM-PASS.kill now ‘I, I …

Christiansen & Christiansen (2002), Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or: Berber or Songhay, this is the question, p. 9
… zlǝz, ‘shake’, is used in a nominal form complementing hínjin. The reflexive phrase takes the slot of the indirect object that is marked with DAT. (121) a) har intáynawt a₌hínjin t-ée-wan-t. until jackal 3s₌be.much F-SG-be.fed-F.SG har áa₌k(a) until Jackal had eaten very well. b) until a₌hínjin 3s₌be.much 3s₌LOC a-ṇágaḍ SG-be.turbaned until he was very well turbaned in it (kind of turban). c) ay₌n 3s-GEN a-mǝsli SG-voice a₌hínjin áa₌se gǝṛṛaẓ-at. áa₌se kuná... 3s₌do.much 3s₌D …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 210
… en encodes immediateness, ‘as soon as’. (275) a) har until jé only a-záɣan SG-ray a₌ss-oɣtá... 3s₌CAUS-upright.BND as soon as it was dawn... b) sa jé when only intáynawt a₌gguná-kat jackal 3s₌see-VEN as soon as Jackal saw him coming... 4.7.4.5 áŋga... 3s.EMP daɣ, harkíd ‘in addition, too’ The particle daɣ ‘too’ can follow a verbal word or a noun. It should not be confused with da INT, which has a different function and also a different origin. /daɣ/ (Prasse et al. 2003:89) is …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 284
… . 3S-PERF-ask 3S COM place people 3P-PERF-be.in He asked her for a place (where) people were (living). The following example uses the sa-strategy. (14) Maħamad intaynawt, da aɣay he adi sa [ni-Ø-yabuk ’]. NAME jackal do 1S thing DET COMPZR 2S-PERF-be.about.to.do Mohamed jackal, do to me that thing which you were about to do. If the following example of the sa-strategy were in English, the indirect object would be relativized. However, the structure in Tadaksahak indicates tha …

Christiansen & Levinsohn (2003), Relative Clauses in Tadaksahak, p. 6
… t able to do. In the second example, the head noun is definite, so the relative pronoun strategy might have been expected (compare (71) and (72)). (64) Maħamad intaynawt da aɣay he adi sa [ni-Ø-yabuk ’]. Mohamed jackal do 1S thing DET COMPZR 2S-PERF-be.about.to.do Mohamed jackal, do to me that thing which you were about to do. We conclude that clauses relativized by sa are non-restrictive provided they could stand by themselves were sa not present. The precise motivation for …

Christiansen & Levinsohn (2003), Relative Clauses in Tadaksahak, p. 15

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