Words

Found 18 words

Tigre
sakyät - iron-chips that fall off when a sword is whetted; edge of a sword (WTS 192)

May be connected to Proto-MSA *šVkay- ‘sword’.

Amharic
däggʷäsä - to cover a book cover, scabbard or saddle with leather; to affix metal decorations along a sword scabbard; to make designs on a book cover or on jewelry with a metal tool (AED 1832)

Cf. also däḳḳʷsä “to grind or crush into a fine powder” (AED 1767)

Amharic
šotäl - curved sword; straight sword; two-edged sword (AED 639)
Var. sotäl.
Gyeto
aräb - sharp sword (EDG I 636)
Mehri
əškáy - sword (ML 394)
Mehri
aγōməd - to sheathe a sword (ML 137)

Perhaps an Arabism.

Jibbali
is̃tɔ́ˀ - sword (JL 314)
Soqotri
ško - sword (LS 416; CSOL I 659; CSOL II 592)

Reconstructions

Found 2 reconstructions

PCS
*ḥarb- - sword (Kogan 2015: 211)
Proto-MSA
*šVkay- - sword (Kogan 2015:571)

The origin is unknown. Contra M. Bittner (1915b:28) and W. Leslau, hardly any connection with Arb. škk ‘to pierce with the spear’, since Arb. š does not regularly correspond to š in MSA. Note Tgr. sakyät ‘iron-chips that fall off when a sword is whetted; edge of a sword’. (Kogan 2015:571)