Dhor Kalmado is dhex yaal ah. Koley garani donta, garani meysa

[Garaannabad]

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[Arabsiyawi]

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Are you sure about Mocoy ? Never heard its masculine tbh.
To me Mocoyo meant the greatgrandma and ayeeyo grandma.

 

[Garaannabad]

Are you sure about Mocoy ? Never heard its masculine tbh.
To me Mocoyo meant the greatgrandma and ayeeyo grandma.

Yes, im sure. There's a afsomali teacher that teach us through TV RTD Channel in Djibouti.

 

[Guure⁸]

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Saqaf means ceiling

 

[Arabsiyawi]

Saqaf means ceiling

It's an arabic loanword in af waqooyi. For hairbrush we say gadhfeedh, whereas Southerners say saqaf or shanlo, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[cunug3aad]

It's an arabic loanword in af waqooyi. For hairbrush we say gadhfeedh, whereas Southerners say saqaf or shanlo, if I'm not mistaken.

Shanlo refers to hair pick / comb, we dont have a word for hairbrush hooyo dhehday because we didnt have them historically
Ceiling waa "kor leh"

 

[Guure⁸]

Shanlo refers to hair pick / comb, we dont have a word for hairbrush hooyo dhehday because we didnt have them historically
Ceiling waa "kor leh"

Kor leh? Never heard of that

 

[cunug3aad]

Kor leh? Never heard of that

I tried (unsuccessfuly) to say no specific word for ceiling either. A lot of words my parents use descriptors for it or just use the english word. Happens when you spent more time outside the country than in at this point
A lot of these words on the list have to be dialect specific like maar is just ilko cas right

 

[Guure⁸]

I tried (unsuccessfuly) to say no specific word for ceiling either. A lot of words my parents use descriptors for it or just use the english word. Happens when you spent more time outside the country than in at this point
A lot of these words on the list have to be dialect specific like maar is just ilko cas right

Ceiling is saqar and it's magar not maar, maar means bronze I think

 

[Garaannabad]

Saqaf means ceiling

Yes in carabic language but in Djibouti dialect is for hairbrush but we also use gadhfeedh sometimes.

I tried (unsuccessfuly) to say no specific word for ceiling either. A lot of words my parents use descriptors for it or just use the english word. Happens when you spent more time outside the country than in at this point
A lot of these words on the list have to be dialect specific like maar is just ilko cas right

You got it, it's a dialect mostly.

Ceiling is saqar and it's magar not maar, maar means bronze I think

As in Djibouti ceiling we just say 'Plafon' which is the French word for ceiling.
And it's maar when I hear it, maybe you're right.

 

[Espaa_]

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I say abuulan for great grandparents and Uur for womb and Abkow for grandad and shallo for hairbrush

 

[cunug3aad]

I say abuulan for great grandparents and Uur for womb and Abkow for grandad and shallo for hairbrush

I will drop this here since i remembered. Somali has idghaam to a degree in informal speech i dont know exactly how the rules work but i think it has to do with a nuun saakinah followed by a voiced consonant although i may be completely wrong please correct me. But it means words like comb and knife are spelt shanlo and mindi, and then when they are pronounced informally they become like shallo and midi

Funny thing is sometimes when people are speaking formally they try and manually reverse the idghaam and add it back into words it never existed in like they say Maansha Allaah with a nuun

 

[Espaa_]

I will drop this here since i remembered. Somali has idghaam to a degree in informal speech i dont know exactly how the rules work but i think it has to do with a nuun saakinah followed by a voiced consonant although i may be completely wrong please correct me. But it means words like comb and knife are spelt shanlo and mindi, and then when they are pronounced informally they become like shallo and midi

Funny thing is sometimes when people are speaking formally they try and manually reverse the idghaam and add it back into words it never existed in like they say Maansha Allaah with a nuun

Ok what about the word “tuko”. My friend says tuko but I say duko. We are both from the south too

 

[cunug3aad]

Ok what about the word “tuko”. My friend says tuko but I say duko. We are both from the south too

Waa tuko maxaa wayey duko wax quack quack buu ku siiyaa hhhhhh
Somali parents need to teach their reer worldwide kids phonics

 

[Espaa_]

Waa tuko maxaa wayey duko wax quack quack buu ku siiyaa hhhhhh

Not you too everyone ik says duko ‘tuko’ sounds like tekkan 5

 

[cunug3aad]

Not you too everyone ik says duko ‘tuko’ sounds like tekkan 5

Next youre gonna say you call your uncle Abdi

 

[Espaa_]

Next youre gonna say you call your uncle Abdi

Different clans different dialects. Speaking of i cannot understand my clans dialect at all it sounds MAD. I was in the bushes with my abuulan and her dialect was crazy thick. I ran back to xamar real quick

Also us xamaris say duko not tuko

 

[cunug3aad]

Different clans different dialects. Speaking of i cannot understand my clans dialect at all it sounds MAD. I was in the bushes with my abuulan and her dialect was crazy thick. I ran back to xamar real quick

Also us xamaris say duko not tuko

My ayeeyo in denmark speaks afmaay only haye haye ku dheh iy sii soco