ገኖ

Tigre

Alternative forms

Etymology

Compare Blin ገኖ (ganṓ, “hide, leather, fell”), Tigrinya ጒኖ (gʷino, “tools of leather”).

Noun

ገኖ • (gäno)

  1. hide, leather, fell
    • 1910, Enno Littmann, editor, Publications of the Princeton Expedition to Abyssinia. Volume I: Tales, customs, names and dirges of the Tigrē tribes: Tigrē text‎, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 120 line 4:

References
  • Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ገኖ”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 586b
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