Where does “ዝብኢ” come from?

ዝብኢ (Tigrinya) comes from Proto-Semitic *ḏiʔb- — wolf.

ዝብኢ (Tigrinya): a hyena

Definitions

  1. a hyena

Ancestry of “ዝብኢ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Semitic*ḏiʔb-wolf
Every word from Proto-Semitic *ḏiʔb-