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    Semitic Words Found in Tigrinya But not in Ge'ez
    (Addis Ababa University, 2009-10) Tesfay, Yemane; Gensler, Prof. Orin
    This th esis deals with Semitic words found in Tigrinya but not Ge'ez. It conta ins four ch a pte rs : cha pter one is genera l introduct ion, cha pter two meth odology, ch a pter three analysis of the data and ch a pter four is conclusion. The results s how that there a re indeed some s u ch words, inclu ding basic vocabulary, but not man y. Th is provides a lexical perspective on the question of how close Ge'ez was to proto-Ethiopic: very close, but not iden tical.