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Cushitism
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English
Etymology
From en Cushite ism.
Noun
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en countable A word or phrase (construction or idiom) typical of or influenced by a Cushitic language.
en Robert Hetzron Robert Hetzron The Verbal System of Southern Agaw 74 Similar phenomenon is found in Semitic languages of Ethiopia. In Gurage, we find the morpheme t(ä)- with the same distribution: with Imperfect it means “when” and with Perfect “if”. Example in Chaha: tisäβər “when he breaks” (Imperfect) and täsäpärä “if he breaks” (Perfect).3 This a Cushitism in Ethiopian Semitic. 1969 University of California Press https://archive.org/details/verbalsystemofso0000hetz/mode/2up 978-0-608-11085-1
en Leonid Kogan Proto-Semitic Lexicon 190 Stefan Weninger The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook Har. tullu ‘hill’ is considered a Cushitism in EDH 149. 2011-12-23 Walter de Gruyter https://books.google.be/books?id=SMzgBLT87MkC 978-3-11-025158-6
en https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/2023/08/10/is-arabic-cushitic/ Is Arabic Cushitic? Benjamin Suchard 2023-08-10 Benjamin Suchard Benjamin Suchard pronominal *ku, *ti: masculine *ku is a good Cushitic feature. Ge’ez has zə-kku for ‘that (m.)’, but given the absence of specifically masculine *ku elsewhere in Semitic, I’m happy to accept that as a Cushitism. https://web.archive.org/web/20230817151159/https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/2023/08/10/is-arabic-cushitic/ 2023-08-17
en uncountable Cushitic character; Cushiticness.
en Cheikh Anta Diop Cheikh Anta Diop https://archive.org/details/culturalunityofb0000diop The Cultural Unity of Black Africa: The Domains of Patriarchy and of Matriarchy in Classical Antiquity 1989 Karnak House 978-0-907015-44-4 Whether or not Hammurabi was a Semite from the West or elsewhere, the society which he organised by his legislation was nonetheless impregnated with Cushitism. 99
Derived terms
anti-Cushitism