ከተማ
Ge'ez
Etymology
Compare Sanskrit कोट्ट (koṭṭa), कोट (koṭa), and the suspected Sanskrit borrowings Telugu కోట (kōṭa), Kannada ಕೋಟೆ (kōṭe), Malayalam കോട്ട (kōṭṭa), Tamil கோட்டை (kōṭṭai), all meaning a fortification. Though Ludolf and Dillmann consider the Geʿez in this meaning a vulgar development or Amharism of “extremity, fine; tip, apex”, the opposite may be the case, and we may deal with a loanword also into Ethiopian from the time when Sanskrit ruled the Indian ocean.
Noun
ከተማ • (kätäma) m or f (plural ከተማት (kätämat))
Derived terms
- ተከትመ (täkätmä, “to be encamped”)
- ከተመ (kätämä, “to allocate to a garrison”)
- ክቱም (kətum, “encamped, conscripted”)
- ክትመት (kətmät, “encampment, conscription”)
References
- Dillmann, August (1865) “ከተማ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 851–852
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 298a
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