ጌሰ

Ge'ez

Alternative forms

ጌሠ (geśä)

Etymology

Probably back-formation from ጌሰም (gesäm, “tomorrow”), see it for a derivation.

Verb

ጌሰ • (gesä) (verbal noun ገይስ (gäys), prefix conjugation ይጊስ (yəgis))

to depart, journey, to go or leave particularly in the morning [+accusative = to]

Derived terms

ገየሰ (gäyyäsä, “to hurry in the morning”)
አጌሰ (ʾägesä), አግየሰ (ʾägyäsä, “to make go in the morning; to dismiss”)
ጊሰት (gisät, “the dealing with affairs in the morning”)

References

Dillmann, August (1865) “ጌሰ”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, columns 1195–1196
Leslau, Wolf (1991) “ጌሰ”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 208b

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