Bender 1979: 59. Quoted as cʼéà in [Ahland 2012: 456].
Sese Gumuz:sʼéa1
Bender 1979: 59. Quoted as ɕʼˈéà in [Unseth 1989: 365].
Metemma Gumuz:cʼea1
Bender 1979: 59. Quoted as sʼéā in [Innocenti 2010: 156].
Gojjam Gumuz:sʼeːwu1
Bender 1979: 59. Plural: sʼeː-ma.
NUMBER:22
WORD:earth
Sai Gumuz:nea1
Bender 1979: 59. Plural: e=nea or eba (suppletive?).
Sese Gumuz:ńɗea1
Bender 1979: 59.
Metemma Gumuz:nʔea1
Bender 1979: 59. Quoted as ndʼéā, with polysemy: 'earth / soil / place' in [Innocenti 2010: 151].
Gojjam Gumuz:nía1
Bender 1979: 59. Also ennéah id.
NUMBER:23
WORD:eat
Sai Gumuz:sa1
Bender 1979: 59. Plural: si-gya. Quoted as sá in [Ahland 2012: 458].
Sese Gumuz:sa1
Bender 1979: 59.
Metemma Gumuz:sa1
Bender 1979: 59. Quoted as sá in [Innocenti 2010: 154; Ahland 2012: 457]. Bender also quotes the form eŋ with the same meaning, without discussing its semantic difference from sa; however, its existence is not confirmed in Innocenti's lexical data.
Gojjam Gumuz:ma=s1
Bender 1979: 59.
NUMBER:24
WORD:egg
Sai Gumuz:iša1
Bender 1979: 59.
Sese Gumuz:ıšı-mta1
Bender 1979: 59. The second part of the word is the root for 'hen, bird' q.v.
Metemma Gumuz:iši-mita1
Bender 1979: 59. The second part of the word is the root for 'hen, bird' q.v. Quoted as īːšá 'egg' (cf. also īšǝ́-mǝ́tā 'hen's egg') in [Innocenti 2010: 140].
Gojjam Gumuz:
Not attested.
NUMBER:25
WORD:eye
Sai Gumuz:li=tya1
Bender 1979: 60.
Sese Gumuz:ɕa1
Bender 1979: 60. Cf. kˈó=ɕá 'eye' in [Uzar 1989: 353] (probably = kʼwá=ɕá in Innocenti's Kokit Gumuz q.v.).
Metemma Gumuz:iliː=ɕa1
Bender 1979: 60. Plural: m=iːliː=ɕa. Quoted as lī=ɕá, with polysemy: 'eye / face' in [Innocenti 2010: 146]; as lí=ɕá 'eye, face' in [Ahland 2012: 455]. Another equivalent, but with the same lexical root, is kʼwá=ɕá 'eye' [Innocenti 2010: 74]. Both lī= 'hole, cavity' and kʼwá= 'top, up' are somewhat desemanticized spatial prefixes.
Gojjam Gumuz:il=ɕʼuwa1
Bender 1979: 60. Also illi=kúma id. (semantic distinction is unknown).
NUMBER:26
WORD:fat n.
Sai Gumuz:saːgwa1
Bender 1979: 60. Quoted as sàːgwà in [Ahland 2012: 458].
Sese Gumuz:sáwgwa1
Bender 1979: 60.
Metemma Gumuz:saːgwa1
Bender 1979: 60. Quoted as sāgẃ in [Innocenti 2010: 154], where the meaning is glossed as 'grasso, obeso, pingue', i. e. implying the adjectival meaning 'fat, obese' rather than the nominal meaning '(piece of) fat'; however, no separate word for the noun 'fat' is listed, and 'grasso' does mean both 'fat (adj.)' and 'fat (nom.)' in Italian.
Gojjam Gumuz:
Not attested.
NUMBER:27
WORD:feather
Sai Gumuz:beːkʼwa1
Bender 1979: 60. Same word as 'hair' q.v.
Sese Gumuz:
Not attested.
Metemma Gumuz:
Not attested.
Gojjam Gumuz:
Not attested.
NUMBER:28
WORD:fire
Sai Gumuz:mandʸa1
Bender 1979: 60.
Sese Gumuz:mánʓa1
Bender 1979: 60. Quoted as mˈàːnʓà in [Uzar 1989: 357].
Metemma Gumuz:maːnʓa1
Bender 1979: 60. Quoted as mánʓá, with polysemy: 'fire / firewood', in [Innocenti 2010: 147].
Gojjam Gumuz:manʓaː1
Bender 1979: 60.
NUMBER:29
WORD:fish
Sai Gumuz:ıwaha ~ ıwha1
Bender 1979: 60. Quoted as ùhà in [Uzar 1989: 356].
Sese Gumuz:wúŋa1
Bender 1979: 60. Quoted as ˈùŋà in [Uzar 1989: 356].
Metemma Gumuz:goːša2
Bender 1979: 60. Quoted as gōːšā in [Innocenti 2010: 138].
Gojjam Gumuz:goša2
Bender 1979: 60.
NUMBER:30
WORD:fly v.
Sai Gumuz:
Not attested.
Sese Gumuz:
Not attested in our main sources. Cf., however, pùŋ 'to fly' in [Uzar 1989: 349].
Metemma Gumuz:
Not attested.
Gojjam Gumuz:
Not attested.
NUMBER:31
WORD:foot
Sai Gumuz:ɕogwa ~ gi=ɕogwa1
Bender 1979: 60, 62. Polysemy: 'foot / leg'.
Sese Gumuz:ʓí=ɕǝgwa #1
Bender 1979: 62. Formally attested only in the meaning 'leg', but it does not seem likely that this particular dialect of Gumuz uses a lexical distinction between 'foot' and 'leg', in contrast to the rest of the dialects.
Metemma Gumuz:ɕogwa1
Bender 1979: 60. Quoted as čǝ̄gwá 'leg, paw' in [Innocenti 2010: 128]; no separate word with the meaning 'foot' is attested in Innocenti's materials. Quoted as čàgwà 'foot, leg' in [Ahland 2012: 458].
Gojjam Gumuz:sʼogu1
Bender 1979: 60. Cf. also ɕʼuggumaː 'leg' in [Bender 1979: 62] - most likely, some sort of suffixal extension of the same word (cf. the situation in the other dialects).
NUMBER:32
WORD:full
Sai Gumuz:mi=tyityiku-ma1
Bender 1979: 60.
Sese Gumuz:mı=ɕʼúɣı-ma1
Bender 1979: 60.
Metemma Gumuz:mi=ɕʼokʼu-ma1
Bender 1979: 60. Cf. in [Innocenti 2010: 128]: čʼīč` 'to be full, to be filled' (intr.), čʼīčʼ-ǝ́kʼw 'to fill up' (tr.). This, however, seems to be a different root from Bender's =ɕʼokʼ-, which finds no correlations in Innocenti's lexical materials.
Gojjam Gumuz:
Not attested.
NUMBER:33
WORD:give
Sai Gumuz:tya1
Bender 1979: 60. Plural: tyi-dya. Quoted as ɕá in [Ahland 2012: 454].
Sese Gumuz:ɕʼa1
Bender 1979: 60. Quoted as ɕá in [Uzar 1989: 353].
Metemma Gumuz:tay1
Bender 1979: 60. Quoted as ɕá in [Innocenti 2010: 129]; as ɕá in [Ahland 2012: 454].
Bender 1979: 61. Also dogwonǝ-ma id.; dagǝh id.; mǝ=gǝhǝ-ma id. In [Innocenti 2010: 138], the word gīšā-má is glossed as 'goodness', i. e. a noun. The main verbal root with the meaning 'to be good' is glossed as gǝ̄h [Innocenti 2010: 137], from which further cf. mǝ̄=gǝ́hǝ́ ~ mǝ̄=gǝ́hǝ́-má 'good, beautiful' [Innocenti 2010: 149]; it is also listed as gàχ ~ gáχ 'be good' in [Ahland 2012: 458, 459]. Provisionally, it makes sense to include the roots giš- and gǝh- as synonymous equivalents.
Gojjam Gumuz:ba=gaham2
Bender 1979: 61.
NUMBER:34
WORD:good
Sai Gumuz:
Sese Gumuz:
Metemma Gumuz:mǝ=gǝhǝ-ma2
Bender 1979: 61.
Gojjam Gumuz:
NUMBER:35
WORD:green
Sai Gumuz:
Not attested.
Sese Gumuz:
Not attested.
Metemma Gumuz:má=nzí-má #1
Innocenti 2010: 147. Polysemy: 'green / fertile / luxuriant'. The same word, apparently, is also glossed as mǝ́=nzī-má 'blue, green' in [Innocenti 2010: 149]; cf. also the noun mǝ́=nzī-cā 'fertility, greenness' [ibid.]. Not attested in Bender's materials.
Gojjam Gumuz:
Not attested.
NUMBER:36
WORD:hair
Sai Gumuz:beːkʼwa1
Bender 1979: 61. Quoted as béːkʼwá in [Ahland 2012: 458].
Sese Gumuz:békʼwa1
Bender 1979: 61. Quoted as bˈéːkʼʷà in [Uzar 1989: 355].
Metemma Gumuz:beːkʼwa1
Bender 1979: 61. Quoted as bēkʼwā in [Innocenti 2010: 126].
Gojjam Gumuz:beːkwaː1
Bender 1979: 61.
NUMBER:37
WORD:hand
Sai Gumuz:ela ~ era1
Bender 1979: 61.
Sese Gumuz:
Not attested in our main sources. Cf. èlˈà 'hand' in [Uzar 1989: 360].
Metemma Gumuz:ɛla1
Bender 1979: 61. Plural: m=eːla. Quoted as éāː, with polysemy: 'hand / arm' in [Innocenti 2010: 132] (with regular elision of -l-).
Gojjam Gumuz:
Not attested.
NUMBER:38
WORD:head
Sai Gumuz:lukʼwa1
Bender 1979: 61.
Sese Gumuz:yílukʼwa1
Bender 1979: 61.
Metemma Gumuz:ilukwa1
Bender 1979: 61. Plural: m=ilukwa. Quoted as līkʼwá in [Innocenti 2010: 146].
Gojjam Gumuz:ilku1
Bender 1979: 61.
NUMBER:39
WORD:hear
Sai Gumuz:gǝs-ǝkʼu1
Bender 1979: 61. Plural: gǝs-ǝdyuːk.
Sese Gumuz:gǝs-ówkʼw1
Bender 1979: 61.
Metemma Gumuz:=gɛs1
Bender 1979: 61. Quoted as gǝ̄s, with polysemy: 'to hear / to listen / to understand' in [Innocenti 2010: 137].
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