አድግ

Ge'ez

Etymology

Connected by Dillmann with Arabic حِدْج‎ (ḥidj, “burden, load”). See also حِداجَة‎ (ḥidāja, “camel saddle”). Found by Jakob Barth again in عِلْج‎ (ʕilj).

Noun

አድግ • (ʾädg)

ass, donkey

References

Dillmann, August (1865), “አድግ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel
Barth, Jakob (1893) Etymologische Studien zum semitischen insbesondere zum hebräischen Lexicon (in German), Berlin: H. Itzkowski, page 45

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