ባሕር
Ge'ez
Etymology
From Proto-West Semitic *baḥr- (“sea”). Cognate with Classical Syriac ܒܰܚܪܳܐ, Arabic بَحْرٌ (baḥrun). Brockelmann considers ባሕር a Kontrastbildung to ብሔር (bəḥer).
References
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ባሕር”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ባሕር”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN
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