waṣ

Verb v.

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Français: Bouillir ; ébullition (?)
English: to boil; boiling (?)
العربية: يغلي؛ غليان (؟)

Source : Christiansen-Bolli (2010), p. 137 ; p. 297 — French and Arabic meanings translated from English, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). waṣ (to boil; boiling (?)). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1692-was (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctarboil,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{waṣ (to boil; boiling (?))}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1692-was},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… itive and transitive verbs using suppletion of the root when changed to causative and passive voice. 1. Introduction 1.1. Classification Pierre-Francis Lacroix was the first to mention Tadaksahak in literature, together with related languages. They were referred to as “mixed languages” (‘langues mixtes’), because of the evidence of strong influence from Songhay as well as from Tamasheq (Lacroix 1968). In his extensive study of Songhay languages, Robert Nicolaï puts Tadaksahak …

Christiansen & Christiansen (2002), Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or: Berber or Songhay, this is the question, p. 3
… almost fell.’ (12) Bora a-b-dida har tugudu a-Ø-yinṭel a se a-Ø-ne-gertetef. person 3s-TAM-walk TMP tree 3s-TAM-hit.against 3s BEN 3s-TAM-REF-stumble ‘Somebody was walking when he hit against a tree stump and stumbled.’

Christiansen & Christiansen (2002), Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or: Berber or Songhay, this is the question, p. 6
… 6° north. The area is also inhabited by speakers of other languages such as the Tuaregs, the Songhay, Arabs, and the Fulfulde. 1.1.2. Classification Tadaksahak was classified (Nicolaï 1981:25) as part of the Songhay languages spoken along the Niger river in Mali and the western part of Niger. Songhay was tentatively attached to the large Nilo-Saharan phylum (Greenberg 1966). More recent hypotheses published by Robert Nicolaï (1984, 1990) suggest that Songhay came into existen …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 18
… ction of the (Tuareg) warrior caste (the so-called nobility). Since they represent a distinct ethnic group and a dependent social community, their relationship was not so close that the Kel-Tamasheq would inherit from the Idaksahak (Mohammed Ag Guidi, p.c., 1993). Until recently, to marry outside the ethnic group, or the caste, was not considered as appropriate and would be sanctioned by the community. Besides being herdsmen, the Idaksahak were a Maraboutic tribe, which perfo …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 21
… 1S-PERF-see phantom PERF-do fear sa [ayn mon huru a-b-da i ka]. COMPZR 3S.GEN eyes fire 3S-IMPF-do 3P LOC I saw a phantom that causes fear, in whose eyes fire was burning. 1.2 Kinds of relativization strategies Three relativization strategies are employed in Tadaksahak: (1) the relative pronoun strategy, (2) the gap strategy (i.e., no marking), and (3) with the sa-strategy. The morpheme sa only introduces nonrestrictive relative clauses (provided a specific condition is met) …

Christiansen & Levinsohn (2003), Relative Clauses in Tadaksahak, p. 4

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