dar

Walaal, caano higgu dar, fadlan.


was

→ English: wass


ah

Bariis oo macaan ah.


mar

Inherited from Proto-Cushitic *mVr-. Compare Arabic مَرَّ (marra, “to pass, elapse”).


celi

wax iska celi.


gal

musqusha gal


mari

rooti-ga wax mari.


im

This verb has been postulated to have a Semitic origin due to its frequent usage with verbal prefixes common in Semitic languages such as timid (“you came”), yimid (“he came”), timid (“she came”), in which case Ge'ez እም (əm, “from”) is the likeliest source. Others posit these linguistic features to be remnants of Proto-Cushitic.


arag

From Proto-Cushitic *ʔark’-, from Proto-Afroasiatic *ʔar-ḳ- (“to see, to understand”)


dhal

From Proto-Cushitic *-xʷayl- (“child, to bear a child”). Compare to Afar xaylo.

to give birth; to procreate; to reproduce


doon

shaqo orod doon


rif

From Proto-Cushitic *rif-. Cognates include Oromo rifuu.


aamin

Likely borrowed from Arabic آمَنَ (ʔāmana, “to believe (in)”).

bor

I aamin.


soco

From Proto-Cushitic *soʔ-
# to bring, to come


bax

to get out (sometimes used as an interjectional exclamation)


mayr

Wajiga mayr!


abuur

From Proto-Cushitic *ʔ-b-r-/*ʔ-r-b-, which is likely connected to Proto-Semitic *b-r-ʔ-. Compare Hebrew ברא (bará), Aramaic ברא (b'rā), Arabic برأ (baraʔa), and Oromo uumuu.


isticmaal

Ultimately from Arabic اِسْتِعْمَال (istiʕmāl).

der

اِسْتِعْمَال

Arabic اِسْتِعْمَال (istiʕmāl)


nuug

From Proto-Afroasiatic *nuuk. Cognate with Rendille nuuga (“to suck”). Compare Afar angu (“breast”), Jiiddu eenge (“breast”) Egyptian snq (“to suck”), Hebrew ינק (yanaq, “to suck”) and Hausa nono (“breast”).


imaad

From Proto-Cushitic *ʔim(t)- from Proto-Afroasiatic *-im- (“to come”). Cognate to Afar emeete.


maax

From Proto-Cushitic *maaħ- (to get wet) from Proto-Afroasiatic *maʔ-. Compare Aasax maʔa, Dahalo maʔa; also Egyptian mw, Hebrew מים (máyim), Classical Syriac ܡܝܐ (mayyā) and Somali maanyo.


maaxi

let water calm so mud gets to the ground


qoslid

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Hadiyya osar- and Sidamo osol-.


dhiig

From Proto-East Cushitic *ɗiig+ (Bender, 2020). Cognate with Oromo dhiiga, Jiiddu dhig.


hindhis

From Proto-Cushitic, from Proto-Afroasiatic onomatopoeia. Compare Jiiddu hanjhisaal, Daasanach andursh, and Arbore hetturis. Cognates may include Hebrew התעטש (hit'atésh), and Hausa atishawa.