What word similarities do we share with Ethiopians?
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Well Ne-gus actually sound something more familiar than Ugas.I was just thinking about something... In Amharic, Negus = king, In Somali Ugas = King.
They really do sound a bit related.
But they don't share any linguistic connection Negus means to reign and ugas derived from Ug
Ugas >> Ugaal >> Ug which means wise man, and literally the one who knows
galla(amharic) and gaal/gaalo(somali)
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negus= negerI was just thinking about something... In Amharic, Negus = king, In Somali Ugas = King.
They really do sound a bit related.
Gaal meant camel in somali, I wonder where Galla meant in amharic in that time, or was it just a borrowed word?
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it's geel, not gaal
The original pronouncetion was with double a's, but then changed to e's. Maay speakers still preserve the original version
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I think maay maay is the original Af Somali, I think the Garre clan are the first Somalis they migrated down to south that.
Ugaas is like Oguuz ( Turkish).
Afaan Oromoo
Qafar Af
Sidaamu Afoo
Af Soomaali
A lot of East-Cushitic languages use this word as the word for both mouth and language. Af is also present in Ethiosemitic languages like Amharic and Tigrinya via their Agaw substratum as the word for mouth (አፍ/Afi). It is even present in Beja as "Yēf/Yāf" as the word for mouth. A very deep root in CushItic.
Not the original, but that's ok
It depends on the language you are speaking of. We share many, many cognates with East Cushitic languages like Oromo:
Oromo in particular is crazy. It shares a lot of words with Somali. I remember being given this Oromo language dictionary and history book as a gift years ago by a linguist friend and just from skimming alone I kept seeing cognates like the word for blood being "dhiiga" or something like that in their language. But there are also many cognates with Ethiosemitic and other Cushitic languages like the Agaw ones and loans as well. Somali has several documented loans from Ethiosemitic:
Ugaas is one of them and shares a root with "Negus".
Oromo in particular is crazy. It shares a lot of words with Somali. I remember being given this Oromo language dictionary and history book as a gift years ago by a linguist friend and just from skimming alone I kept seeing cognates like the word for blood being "dhiiga" or something like that in their language. But there are also many cognates with Ethiosemitic and other Cushitic languages like the Agaw ones and loans as well. Somali has several documented loans from Ethiosemitic:
2013 Strata in Semitic loanwords in Northern Somali
2013 Strata in Semitic loanwords in Northern Somali
www.academia.edu
Ugaas is one of them and shares a root with "Negus".
Even Arabic has Fāh (sing./accusative case), Af-waah (plural) for mouth
The basic word is also "fum/fm/فم". I don't think this exists in other Semitic languages though I maybe wrong but I find it hard to be a coincidence indeed. Might be an old root in Afro-Asiatic or the Berber-Semitic-Cushitic bunch at least.
Boqor probably comes from the ancient Nubian title "paqar"
Mereq/Maraq for soup or stew?
