What word similarities do we share with Ethiopians?

[Muktar]

Amharic: Injera

Somali: Canjeero

 

[exposedmeat]

Amharic: Injera

Somali: Canjeero

they loan the word from us

 

[Muktar]

they loan the word from us

I thought Injera came from Ethiopia?

 

[Xanibacal bin Barqa]

I did this a while back


Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *ʔab-Meaning: father [Note: ( ʔ ) = hamza ء]
Semitic: *ʔab- 'father'
Berber: *ʔab(b)- 'father'
Egyptian: ꜣb.t 'family' , 'parents'
Western Chadic: *ʔa/ub- 'father'
Central Chadic: *ʔab- 'father'
East Chadic: *ʔab- 'man' (?)
Central Cushitic (Agaw): *ʔab- 'father'
Saho-Afar: *ʔab- 'father'
Low East Cushitic: *ʔab- 'father'
High East Cushitic: *ʔab- 'father, uncle'
South Cushitic: *ʔab- 'father'

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *ʔad-Meaning: elder female relative; lady
Central Chadic: *ʔadi ~ *dada 'grandmother'
East Chadic: *ʔadid- 'mother-in-law, grandmother, daughter-in-law'
Beḍauye (Beja): enda 'Mutter'
Central Cushitic (Agaw): *ʔad- 'mother'
Low East Cushitic: *ʔadad- 'paternal aunt'1, 'aunt' ( Somali : eedo )
High East Cushitic: *ʔadad- 'maternal aunt, mother'
Warazi (Dullay): *ʔatit- 'elder sister'
Omotic: *ʔind- 'mother'

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *ʔadir-Meaning: paternal uncle; master, lord
Semitic: *ʔaddīr- 'noble, notable' 1, 'majestic, powerful' 2, 'assembly of elders, council' 3
Central Cushitic (Agaw): *ʔadar- 'master, lord' 1, 'God' 2
Low East Cushitic: *ʔader- 'paternal uncle' 1, 'uncle' 2
South Cushitic: *daʔar- 'chief'

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *(ʔa-)na/if-Meaning: breath, blowing
Semitic: *ʔanp- 'nose'
Berber: *-naf- 'fresh humid wind'
Egyptian: nf.t (OK) 'fan', nf (NK) 'breath; wind'
Central Chadic: *nip/f- 'breathe' 1, 'life' 2
Beḍauye (Beja): nifi 'to blow (wind)'
Saho-Afar: *naf- 'breath, soul' 1, 'face' 2
Low East Cushitic: *na/ēf- 'breath' 1, soul' 2, 'life' 3
Omotic: *nap- 'blow, swell'

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *ʔil-Meaning: eye
Berber: *wall- 'eye' 1, 'eyes' 2
Central Chadic: *Hyal- 'eye'
Beḍauye (Beja): líli 'eye'
Central Cushitic (Agaw): *ʕil- 'eyeLow East Cushitic: *ʔil- 'eye'
High East Cushitic: *Hill- 'eye'
South Cushitic: *ʔil- 'eye'
Dahalo (Sanye): ʔila 'eye'
Mogogodo (Yaaku): ila 'eyes'

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *ʔilal-Meaning: see, look
Western Chadic: *(H)yal- 'see'
East Chadic: *HiwVll- 'see'
Central Cushitic (Agaw): *ʕalal- 'look'
Saho-Afar: *ʔilal- 'watch' 1, 'look' 2
Low East Cushitic: *ʔilal- 'watch' 1, 'look' 2
Dahalo (Sanye): ʔeley- 'know'

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *ʔilkʷ-Meaning: tooth
Semitic: *ʔ/ʕVlVk- ~ *ʕalik- 'chew, gnaw' 1, 'molars' 2
Central Cushitic (Agaw): *ʔilkʷ- 'tooth'
Low East Cushitic: *ʔilkʷ- 'tooth'
High East Cushitic: *ʔilk- 'tooth'
Warazi (Dullay): *ʔilg- 'tooth'

 

[Xanibacal bin Barqa]

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *ʕal-Meaning: height, elevation, mountain
Semitic: *ʕall- ~ *ʕVlʕVl- ~ *laʕl- 'height, elevation, the above' 1, 'upper part' 2, 'be high, elevated' 3, 'raise, elevate' 4
Saho-Afar: (?) *ʔal- 'mountain'
Low East Cushitic: *ʕal- 'mountain'
... i guess Calmadow ,Ali and EL AL (Hebrew: אל על‎, "To the Skies" ) have something in common lol.


Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *ball-Meaning: feather, wing
Semitic: *nu-ball- (*mu-ball) 'eagle's feather'
Berber: *bulbul 'feather'
Western Chadic: *bV-bāl- 'shoulder' 1, 'arm' 2 - cf.
Central Chadic: *mu-bal- 'arm'1, 'shoulder' 2 - cf.
Saho-Afar: *bal- 'feather'
Low East Cushitic: *bal(l)- 'wing'
High East Cushitic: *ball(aʔ)- 'feather'
Omotic: *bal- 'feather'

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *bar-Meaning: see, know
Semitic: *bVrVy- 'see, examine'
Egyptian: br 'see' (gr).
Central Chadic: *bur- 'think, consuder 1, 'remember' 2
Saho-Afar: *bar- 'learn'
Low East Cushitic: *bar- 'learn'
Dahalo (Sanye): ḅar- 'know'

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *bur-Meaning: dry land, sand, dust
Semitic: *barr- 'empty place' 1, 'field' 2, '(dry) land' 3, 'region' 4
Western Chadic: *buHVr- 'sand' 1, 'dust' 2
Central Chadic: *bur- 'sand' 1, 'dust' 2
East Chadic: *bar-H- 'field'
Saho-Afar: *bur- 'sand'
Low East Cushitic: *bur- 'dune' 1, 'earth' 2
Dahalo (Sanye): ḅur-une 'dust'

 

[The alchemist]

What people don't realize is that the Cushitic language family (excluding Beja, yes they are Cushitic, but they split even earlier) is about as old as Indo-European.

So Cushitic languages can be almost as different from each other as German, Russian, Persian, and Spanish are from each other.

It is easier to learn Arabic than to learn other Cushitic languages for a Somali native speaker.

Nevertheless, the biggest Cushitic language: Oromo, is relatively close to Somali, but many of the other ones aren't.

Time and time again, I see people exaggerating the emphasis of similarities between Horners to the extent that it undermines the integrity of differences, giving no respect to the real history outside this juvenile outlook of the past.

 

[Apollo]

Time and time again, I see people exaggerating the emphasis of similarities between Horners to the extent that it undermines the integrity of differences, giving no respect to the real history outside this juvenile outlook of the past.

It's because most people here are young diasporans who grew up in the West and haven't experienced the cultural differences between the different ethnicities in the Horn. From their life in the West they see that other Horners are the only group who look most similar to them and then get curious about the connections (such as Cushitic etc). But yeah, I agree, some here exaggerate it.

 

[BigShaq]

'Doro' - amharic for chicken

Like we say dooro

 

[Maltuse]

'Doro' - amharic for chicken

Like we say dooro

In Tigrinya it's doorho. That's the original pronunciation for chicken while Amharic naturally simplified it.

 

[BigShaq]

In Tigrinya it's doorho. That's the original pronunciation for chicken while Amharic naturally simplified it.

Pretty cool how they kept a cushitic word

 

[Sheikh Kulkuli]

Haile selasie stole the name of Aethiopia Kush ancient civilisation that predated axum civilisation.

 

[Ninmadow]

galla(amharic) and gaal/gaalo(somali)

Gaalo or gaal in Somali actually came from them lo. The hatred our ancestors had for them they named them gaala ( ones without camel). And then when the colonisers came they named the cadaan gaala that’s prolly why the Somali word for camel changed from gal to geel

 

[Nalaaye floxks]

I hope none. I don't want to share words with those animals.

Dodo- doro
Even if you hate them for the sake of “somalinimo”, you can’t deny that we are related

 

[Magan95]

it comes from the arabic word maraq.

What proof do you have that it's an Arabic word?

Maraq is used in Somali, and Amharic. I'm thinking it came from us and spread to them.

 

[Idilinaa]

Gaalo or gaal in Somali actually came from them lo. The hatred our ancestors had for them they named them gaala ( ones without camel). And then when the colonisers came they named the cadaan gaala that’s prolly why the Somali word for camel changed from gal to geel

I don’t think Galla and the old termGaal(Camel) are even related. And it’s different from Gaalo which means infidel.

Gaalo(Infidel) and Gaal(Camel) are still used in Southern Dialects so that doesn’t explain why Gaal changed to Geel in Af Maxaa.

I remember reading long ago how Galla the ethiopians used for Oromos came from so other source.

 

[TheLand]

I don’t think Galla and the old termGaal(Camel) are even related. And it’s different from Gaalo which means infidel.

Gaalo(Infidel) and Gaal(Camel) are still used in Southern Dialects so that doesn’t explain why Gaal changed to Geel in Af Maxaa.

I remember reading long ago how Galla the ethiopians used for Oromos came from so other source.

Gaalo is plural, singular would be Gaal for infidel. Just like the word for camel (Gaal) as in the Somali tribe Gaal-jecel. Doesn’t mean infidel lover lol.