urru

Afar
Urru.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈurːu/, [ˈʔʊrːʊ]
  • Hyphenation: ur‧ru

Noun

úrru m (singulative áwka m or awká f, plural urritté f or urruuteetá f)

  1. (collective) children

Declension
Declension of úrru
absolutive úrru
predicative úrru
subjective urrí
genitive urrí
Postpositioned forms
l-case úrrul
k-case úrruk
t-case úrrut
h-case úrruh

Derived terms

See also
  • xayló (“children, offspring”)

References
  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “ùrru”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
  • Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2013 August) “Gender, Number and Agreement in Afar (Cushitic language)”, in 43th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics‎, Leiden: Leiden University
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