surgay

Noun n.

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Français: Femme, épouse
English: woman, wife
العربية: امرأة، زوجة

Source : Christiansen & Christiansen (2002), p. 8, ex. 15 ; Christiansen & Levinsohn 2003, p. 5, ex. 10 — French and Arabic meanings translated from English, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). surgay (woman, wife). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/2083-surgay (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctarsurgay,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{surgay (woman, wife)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/2083-surgay},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… st lui qui l'a tenu 3s.EMP FOC-hold₌3s. Áŋga nǝ-bb-ǝddǝr₌a C'est lui/elle qui le tient. 3s.EMP FOC-IMPERF-tenir₌3s Aɣo yyáhag-an Celui qui a duré DET durer-ADJ Surgáy aɣo bb-ǝddǝr la femme avec laquelle il est marié Femme DET IMPERF-marier Cí wwí₌a Qui l'a tué ? Quoi/qui a tué₌3s

Ag Abdoussalam (s. d.), Structure grammaticale d’un parler berbéro-songhay du nord-est malien (tadaksahak) : éléments de linguistique, p. 24
… ‘to sit behind’ lănkăm ‘to sit behind’ selenkem ‘to make sit behind’ (14) Aɣa-b-lenkem a se 1s-TAM-sit.behind 3s BEN ‘I sit behind him.’ (15) A-Ø-se-lenkem ayn surgay 3s-TAM-CAUS-sit.behind 3s.GEN woman ‘He made his wife sit behind (on a camel).’ 2.3.4. Verb roots beginning with “y-” We can observe that the inital consonant “y-” is dropped in favor of the consonant of the voice changing prefix. Songhay (Gao) Tadaksahak Tamasheq denji ‘to glue’ yidɣer ‘to be glued’ ǝdɣǝr ‘to b …

Christiansen & Christiansen (2002), Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or: Berber or Songhay, this is the question, p. 7
… 3P-SUBJ-make 3S COM slave Each male who arrived at their (place) was taken to be made a slave. The following sentence illustrates the sa-strategy. (10) A-Ø-zaw surgay fo [sa itila zaɣri a-te-ŋa imuṇas iʃa]. 3S-PERF-marry woman INDEF COMPZR each day 3S-FUT-eat camel.PL seven He married a certain woman, who (once they were married) used to eat seven camels a day. 2.2 Direct object When the direct object is relativized in other Songhay languages, a resumptive pronoun occupies th …

Christiansen & Levinsohn (2003), Relative Clauses in Tadaksahak, p. 5
… lause is relativized. The function of the relative clause is not to identify which woman he married, but to give additional information about her. (58) A-Ø-zaw surgay fo, sa [itila zaɣri a-te-ŋa imuṇas iʃa]. 3S-PERF-marry woman INDEF COMPZR each day 3S-FUT-eat camel.PL seven He married a certain woman, who (once they were married) used to eat seven camels a day. As noted in sec. 2.2, the relativized constituent in the following example is a direct object, not an indirect one …

Christiansen & Levinsohn (2003), Relative Clauses in Tadaksahak, p. 14

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