sawl

sāwl f

1. alternative form of sāwol

Morphologically from s- (“causative marker”) + awal (“speech”).

• IPA^(key): /sawl/

sawl (intensive aorist sawal, verbal noun awal, Tifinagh spelling ⵙⴰⵡⵍ, Arabic spelling ساول)

1. to speak, to talk

   ايس ا ساوالن تاعرابت نغد تاشلحيت

   is a sawaln taɛrabt nġd tašlḥiyt.

   do they speak Arabic or Tashelhit.

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 3 m—š (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/3) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1935b

• IPA^(key): /sau̯l/

sawl

1. (interrogative) how many?

• Sawl means "how many" and is followed by the singular form of a countable noun.

Sawl cath? ― How many cats?

Sawl coffi? ― How many coffees?

• Faint, on the other hand, corresponds to both English "how many", followed by o and the plural form of a countable noun, and to "how much", followed o and an uncountable noun.

Faint o gathod? ― How many cats?

Faint o goffi? ― How much coffee?

sawl

1. several

• Once again, sawl is followed by the singular form of a countable noun.

Mae gen i sawl cath. ― I have several cats.

• sawl gwaith