dalci-waara

Afar

Dalci-waará.

Etymology

Literally: "Eternal life of a striped hyena", reanalysed as a feminine noun. Traditionally, the aardwolf was thought to be as a shrunken (from old age) striped hyena.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dʌlħiwaːˈɾʌ/

Hyphenation: dal‧ci‧waa‧ra

Noun

dalci-waará f

aardwolf (Proteles cristatus)

Declension

Declension of dalci-waará

absolutive	dalci-waará
predicative	dalci-waará
subjective	dalci-waará
genitive	dalci-waará

References

Didier Morin (2012), “dalci-waara”, in Dictionnaire afar-français (Djibouti, Erythrée, Ethiopie), Karthala, →ISBN