Abessinia
Finnish
Etymology
From German Abessinien.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑbesːiniɑ/, [ˈɑ̝be̞s̠ˌs̠iniɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -iniɑ
- Syllabification(key): A‧bes‧si‧ni‧a
Proper noun
Abessinia
- (historical) Abyssinia (a former empire in East Africa, consisting of modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea the Ethiopian Empire,)
Declension
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Abyssinia" is Abessiniassa.
Inflection of Abessinia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Abessinia | — | ||
genitive | Abessinian | — | ||
partitive | Abessiniaa | — | ||
illative | Abessiniaan | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Abessinia | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Abessinia | — | |
gen. | Abessinian | |||
genitive | Abessinian | — | ||
partitive | Abessiniaa | — | ||
inessive | Abessiniassa | — | ||
elative | Abessiniasta | — | ||
illative | Abessiniaan | — | ||
adessive | Abessinialla | — | ||
ablative | Abessinialta | — | ||
allative | Abessinialle | — | ||
essive | Abessiniana | — | ||
translative | Abessiniaksi | — | ||
abessive | Abessiniatta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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The Empire of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), the Kingdom of Shoa (Shewa) and the Emirate of Harar c. 1873.
Etymology
From Medieval Latin Abissini, a form of Abissīnus (“Abyssinian, Ethiopian”), either from Arabic الحَبَشِيّ (al-ḥabašiyy, “Ethiopian”), a form of الْحَبَشَة (al-ḥabaša, “Abyssinia”) (with the suffix ـِيّ (-iyy)), from the root ح ب ش (ḥ b š), or from Amharic ሀበሻ (häbäša, “Habesha (The inhabitants of Abyssinia)”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /abəˈsiːnɪa/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɪa
- Hyphenation: A‧bes‧si‧ni‧a
Proper noun
Abessinia
- (historical) Abyssinia (a former empire in East Africa, consisting of modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea the Ethiopian Empire,)
Synonyms
- Etiopia (“Ethiopia”)
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Proper noun
Abessinia
- (historical) Abyssinia (a former empire in East Africa, consisting of modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea the Ethiopian Empire,)
Synonyms
Derived terms
- abessinar, abessiniar
- abessinsk
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