Kóy

Verb vt.

Translations

Français: Partir pour, aller à
English: Leave for; go to, to
العربية: يغادر إلى، يذهب إلى

Source : the site’s first dictionary (Swadesh list)

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). Kóy (Leave for; go to, to). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/210-koy (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctarleave,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{Kóy (Leave for; go to, to)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/210-koy},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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Pages of the library’s works where this word appears.

… ’ (6) fall kaŋ ʃeder odda he fell (7) fly ṣot seseged ǝgǝd to fly (8) get up tunu sunkur ǝnkǝr to get up (9) go down zumbu zezebet zăbbăt to go down (10) leave koy segla ăglu to leave (11) depart hunu sefel ǝfǝl to depart (12) be placed9 keni ʃinʃa ăṇsu to be placed (13) run zuru zezel azǝl to run (14) sit gora ʃaɣam neɣima ɣamu to sit ‘sit together’ (15) spend the day hoɣay sekla ăklu to spend the day (16) stop kay sebded ǝbdǝd to stop (17) suckle kamkam10 senkes ǝṇkǝs to su …

Christiansen & Christiansen (2002), Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or: Berber or Songhay, this is the question, p. 11
… r (see also 2.4.1.10.1.1). (67) final -o Tadak with suffix gloss babó kó(y) babón kón ~ koyán monán ‘be numerous/many’ ‘to leave there’ Songhay KCH bobo ‘much’ koy ‘to hear there’ mom mó 2.4.1.10.6 Plural morphemes on nouns The plural morpheme -en, which is used with nouns of Songhay origin, causes regular deletion of a stem-final vowel, e.g. (68) plural morpheme -en noun + PL realization gloss

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 58
… ot involving a ‘bring’ component. There is no verb root in the language to express ‘to come’. The form /kaa/ ‘to come’ from Songhay is not found, only the form koy ‘to leave’

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 90
… 3S.GEN daughters BEN ribbons [# ciday-enen]. be.red-ADJZ.PL …until the day the chief gave his daughters red ribbons (ribbons that were red). (46) Tabuɣant a-Ø-koy tugudu fo [# ber-i] n ciday. old.sheep 3S-PERF-go tree INDEF be.big-ADJZ GEN N:under The old sheep went under a big tree (a tree that was big).

Christiansen & Levinsohn (2003), Relative Clauses in Tadaksahak, p. 11
… an that she loves’ is left-dislocated not to the beginning of the sentence, but only to the beginning of its clause (following the subject ‘each one’). (69) Wa koy, IMP leave itila afo aru [aɣo a-Ø-baɣa] a-m-da a ayn jinji ka. each one man REL 3S-PERF-love 3S-SUBJ-do 3S 3S.GEN neck LOC Leave, may each one put it (ribbon) around the neck of the man that she loves. The motivation for a further set of examples of left-dislocation is the speaker’s desire to give extra prominence …

Christiansen & Levinsohn (2003), Relative Clauses in Tadaksahak, p. 16

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