Where does “ነው” come from?

ነው (Amharic) comes from Proto-Semitic *haway- — to be, to become, to fall, to happen.

ነው (Amharic): to be

Definitions

  1. to be

Ancestry of “ነው”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Semitic*haway-to be, to become, to fall, to happen
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