Etymology

Omotic

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Today it means: Of or pertaining to a language family, often grouped into the Afroasiatic language family, spoken in southwestern Ethiopia, some of which use the Ge'ez alphabet, and which are fairly agglutinative, with complex tonal systems. Full definition →

Ganza wá-ma
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  1. Ganza · derived fromwá-ma
  2. English todayOmotic

Named after the Omo River in Ethiopia, + -ic. The river's name could ultimately be from Ganza wá-ma, ó-má (“river”).

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