ɣer

Kabyle

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁər/

Etymology 1

Possibly from Punic 𐤒𐤓𐤀 (qrʾ).

Verb

ɣer (intensive aorist yeqqar, aorist iɣer, preterite yeɣra, negative preterite yeɣri)

  1. to read
    Qqareɣ adlis.
    I'm reading a book.
  2. to study
    Teɣra taεrabt.
    She studied Arabic.
  3. to call
    Qqaren-yas Kamal.
    His name is Kamal.
    (literally, “They call him Kamal.”)
Usage notes
  • The intensive aorist is also found with the stem -ɣɣar- instead of -qqar-, especially when used to mean "call".
  • The intensive aorist of this verb can be suppleted into the paradigm of ini (“to say”).
  • The verb, when used as an introduction to a person's name, is inflected in the third-person plural masculine, and the person being named incurs the corresponding indirect object affix on the verb.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

Preposition

ɣer

  1. location marker: to, at

References

  • Blažek, Václav (2014), “Phoenician/Punic loans in Berber languages and their role in chronology of Berber”, in Folia Orientalia‎[1], volume 51, pages 276–293
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