catuffa
Afar
Etymology
Onomatopoeic for the sound of an earthquake. Created around the 1950s in Djibouti, used originally to express the decimal numbers in the Richter magnitude scale.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ħʌtufˈfʌ/
- Hyphenation: ca‧tuf‧fa
Noun
catuffá f
- (mathematics) decimal point
References
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)