ቀዳሚ

ቀዳሚ

Ge'ez

Ge'ez ordinal numbers

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Cardinal : አሐዱ (ʾäḥädu)     Ordinal : ቀዳሚ (ḳädami)

Etymology

Cognates include Tigre ቀዳም (ḳädam) and Tigrinya ቀዳማይ (ḳädamay).

Adjective

ቀዳሚ • (ḳädami) m (feminine singular ቀዳሚት, masculine plural ቀደምት, feminine plural ቀዳምያት)

1. (ordinal number) first
2. early, original
3. ancient, prior

Noun

ቀዳሚ • (ḳädami)

1. beginning
   • 1853-1855, August Dillmann, editor, Veteris Testamenti Aethiopici‎, Leipzig, Genesis 1:1:

     በቀዳሚ፡ገብረ፡እግዚአብሔር፡ሰማየ፡ወምድረ።

     bäḳädami gäbrä ʾəgziʾäbḥer sämayä wämdrä.

     In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

References

• Dillmann, August (1865), “ቀዳሚ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel