[--] _Ar,_ "a river." Compare Heb.

[--] , Arab.

_nahr_.
_Gabri_, "a mountain." Compare Arabic _jabal_.
_Ki,_ "the earth." _Kingi,_ "a country." _San,_ "the sun." _Kha,_ "a fish"( ?).
_Kurra,_ "a horse." Compare Arabic _gurra_.
_Guski,_ "gold." Compare Galla _irerke_.

_Guski_ means also "red" and "the evening." _Babar,_ "silver," "white," "the morning." Compare Agau _ber,_ Tigre _burrur_.
_Zabar,_ "copper." Compare Arabic _sifr_.
_Hurud,_ "iron." Compare Arabic _hadid_.
_Zakad,_ "the head." Compare Gonga _toko_.
_Kat,_ "the hand." Compare Gonga _kiso_.
_Si,_ "the eye." _Pi,_ "the ear." Compare Magyar _ful_.
_Gula,_ "great." Compare Galla _guda_.
_Tura,_ "little." Compare Gonga _tu_ and Galla _tina_.
_Kelga,_ "powerful." _Ginn,_ "first." _Mis,_ "many." Compare Agau _minch_ or _mench_.
_Gar,_ "to do." _Egir,_ "after." Compare Hhamara (Abyssinian) _igria_.
The grammar of this language is still but very little known.

The conjugations of verbs are said to be very intricate and difficult, a great variety of verbal forms being from the same root as in Hebrew, by means of preformatives.