i-ʃígn-an

Noun n.

Translations

Français: Fils
English: threads
العربية: خيوط (جمع)

Source : Christiansen-Bolli (2010), p. 130 — French and Arabic meanings translated from English, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). i-ʃígn-an (threads). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1668-i-shign-an (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctariignan,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{i-ʃígn-an (threads)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1668-i-shign-an},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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101 Morphology (88) Stems dropping -w# a) b) singular plural i-máaṛ-an gloss 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 …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 119
… it in it for him. n SEP áa₌ka 3s₌LOC n SEP a! 3s ǝnda ‘with’ can be preceded by the pronoun separator. (141) Lém-kat twine-VEN aɣáy sa 1s DAT n SEP á₌(ǝ)nd(a) i-ʃígn-an 3s₌with Twine me thread with it (earth). PL-thread-PL Read more about ǝnda and its behaviour with pronouns under 3.2.7.11.2.2. 3.2.7.11.2.1 Pronouns with dative se Most pronouns indicating the indirect (dative) object are marked by the dative postposition se. With first person pronouns it is absent when the p …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 148

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