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Do the Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside Ge'ez, or are they inherited forms only?

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A few Ge'ez letter names are transparently words in the language: bet is a house, gaml is a camel, and the word behind res is the word for a head. Most are not, and several, nahas among them, resemble Ge'ez words closely enough to invite a gloss that nothing supports. The atlas records no meaning for those letters, which is a statement about the evidence and leaves open whether the Ethiopian tradition itself ever attached senses to them.

What would resolve this A survey of the Ge'ez grammatical and church-school literature for any indigenous account of the letter names, set against the comparative reconstruction of the Northwest Semitic names, would show whether an Ethiopian gloss tradition exists and what it says.
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What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43326 already asked whether Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside the tradition and was already linked to Nahas; this edge extends the existing question rather than inventing a second one.

What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43326 already asked whether Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside the tradition and was already linked to Nahas; this edge extends the existing question rather than inventing a second one.

What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43326 already asked whether Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside the tradition and was already linked to Nahas; this edge extends the existing question rather than inventing a second one.

What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43326 already asked whether Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside the tradition and was already linked to Nahas; this edge extends the existing question rather than inventing a second one.

What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43326 already asked whether Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside the tradition and was already linked to Nahas; this edge extends the existing question rather than inventing a second one.

What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43326 already asked whether Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside the tradition and was already linked to Nahas; this edge extends the existing question rather than inventing a second one.

What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43326 already asked whether Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside the tradition and was already linked to Nahas; this edge extends the existing question rather than inventing a second one.

What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43326 already asked whether Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside the tradition and was already linked to Nahas; this edge extends the existing question rather than inventing a second one.

What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43326 already asked whether Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside the tradition and was already linked to Nahas; this edge extends the existing question rather than inventing a second one.

What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43326 already asked whether Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside the tradition and was already linked to Nahas; this edge extends the existing question rather than inventing a second one.

Source Divinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First Edition

What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43326 already asked whether Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside the tradition and was already linked to Nahas; this edge extends the existing question rather than inventing a second one.

What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43326 already asked whether Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside the tradition and was already linked to Nahas; this edge extends the existing question rather than inventing a second one.

What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43326 already asked whether Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside the tradition and was already linked to Nahas; this edge extends the existing question rather than inventing a second one.

What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43326 already asked whether Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside the tradition and was already linked to Nahas; this edge extends the existing question rather than inventing a second one.

What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43326 already asked whether Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside the tradition and was already linked to Nahas; this edge extends the existing question rather than inventing a second one.

What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43326 already asked whether Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside the tradition and was already linked to Nahas; this edge extends the existing question rather than inventing a second one.

What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43326 already asked whether Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside the tradition and was already linked to Nahas; this edge extends the existing question rather than inventing a second one.

What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43326 already asked whether Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside the tradition and was already linked to Nahas; this edge extends the existing question rather than inventing a second one.

What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43326 already asked whether Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside the tradition and was already linked to Nahas; this edge extends the existing question rather than inventing a second one.

What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43326 already asked whether Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside the tradition and was already linked to Nahas; this edge extends the existing question rather than inventing a second one.

What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43326 already asked whether Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside the tradition and was already linked to Nahas; this edge extends the existing question rather than inventing a second one.

What is not known, and what would settle it. OpenQuestion 43326 already asked whether Ge'ez letter names carry a sense inside the tradition and was already linked to Nahas; this edge extends the existing question rather than inventing a second one.

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Divinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First Edition
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