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yí númfáashíi
a word from vocabulary
Hausa
by
Ari Awagana
and
H. Ekkehard Wolff
with
Doris Löhr
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Word form
yí númfáashíi
LWT meaning(s)
to breathe
Analyzability
analyzable phrasal
Gloss
yí númfáashíi [to do breathing]
Age
Pre-modern Islamic [4] (1000–1900)
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
5. no evidence for borrowing
Comments
unfas (Touareg: Foucauld) nafas, pl. anfas ,souffle, bouffée’ (Arabic)
Source words
unfas
'respiration'
Tamasheq
nafs
'soul'
Arabic
Effect
Insertion
Salience
Present in pre-contact environment
Contact situation
General cultural [4]
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