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1973: English-Amharic Context Dictionary. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, xviii + 1503 p. (ISBN 3-447-01482-2) 1976: Concise Amharic Dictionary. (Reissue edition: 1996) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. (ISBN 0-520-20501-4) 1979: Etymological Dictionary of Gurage (Ethiopic). 3 vols. Wiesbaden: Otto
Amsalu Aklilu (2 September 1929 – 19 December 2013) was a distinguished lexicographer of Amharic and a language professor at Addis Ababa University, [1] a major figure in Ethiopian studies. He was born in Dessie , Wällo, attended a local church school and later attended and graduated from Holy Trinity Secondary School, in Addis Ababa .
In 1929, Baeteman published his Amharic dictionary. It was printed in Dire Dawa (east Ethiopia ) and dedicated to Haile Selassie I , who was then still Negus Tafāri Makwennen. The dictionary comprises more than 1000 pages and includes around 1000 proverbs, from a collection made by the Lazarist Jean-Baptiste Coulbeaux .
Amharic (/ æ m ˈ h ær ɪ k / am-HARR-ik [4] [5] [6] or / ɑː m ˈ h ɑːr ɪ k / ahm-HAR-ik; [7] native name: አማርኛ, romanized: Amarəñña, IPA: [amarɨɲːa] ⓘ) is an Ethiopian Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages.
Essentials of Amharic. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. Ethiopian Semitic archaic heterogeneity; Ethiopian Semitic negative nonpast; Ethiopian Semitic Overview; Ethiopic Documents: Argobba Grammar and Dictionary; Geoloinguistic evidence for Ethiopian semitic prehistory; Gurage Studies: Collected Articles; Hudson, Grover (1989). Highland East ...
Among other works, his books include Amharic Verb Morphology (his PhD dissertation - a generative study of Amharic verbal morphology), Language in Ethiopia (co-edited with C. Ferguson, C. Bowen, R. Cooper), Nilo-Saharan Language Studies, The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia, Preliminary Gaam-English-Gaam Dictionary, Omotic Verb Morphology, and ...
Oreste Vaccari (1886 - 1980) was an Italian Orientalist and linguist.. He was a pupil at the Royal Oriental Institute of Naples during the second decade of the 20th century, where his instructors included Afevork Ghevre Jesus, who taught him Amharic and eventually became the chargé d'affaires of the Ethiopian delegation to Rome.
Igziabeher (Amharic: እግዚአብሔር; / ə ɡ z i ˈ ɑː b ə h ɛ r /) means literally "Lord of a nation" or "tribe", i.e. God, in the Ethiopic or Ge'ez language, as well as modern Ethio-semitic languages including Amharic.