Áfraw

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

• … blaɣ brique ámlay viande sans graisse Alʒíb poche ajím mille B/f bér grand fér detacher Bún la mort fun percer Ʒiibíitan saletés jíifatan cadavres Ábram turban áfraw Ail Ṣǝṭǝb verser du loutre ṣǝṭef cracher B/d báy connaitre Day acheter Bíibi noir biidí os Yibrár être mauvais yídraɣ décorer

  Ag Abdoussalam (s. d.), Structure grammaticale d’un parler berbéro-songhay du nord-est malien (tadaksahak) : éléments de linguistique, p. 6

• … die old cushion chunk of earth pocket to be big to die dirt (pl) white turban to put on a belt to know to be black máy mún amákṭaṛ ámlay ajím fér fún jíifatan áfraw ṣǝṭef dáy biidí gloss to own to throw out leaving the well meat (kind of) thousand to open to pierce corpses feather / wing to spit to buy bone

  Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 27

• … ) 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 cognates the suff …

  Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 119