timessi

Senhaja De Srair

Alternative forms

  • imessi (Ketama)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

Compare Kabyle timess (“fire, hell”), Tachawit times (“fire, hell”), Northern Saharan Berber timsi (“fire, hell”), Siwi temsi (“fire, hell”), Nefusa temsi (“fire, fireplace”), Sokna timsi (“fire”), Tuareg temse (“fire”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /timəsːi/

Noun

timessi f (usually uncountable, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⵉⵎⴻⵙⵙⵉ)

  1. fire, heat, warmth
    Synonym: (Hmed) lɛafya
    Kayen timessi din. ― There is a fire over there.
  2. fever

Declension

Inflection of timessi
singular plural
free state timessi —
construct state tmessi —

Derived terms

  • ikeccuḍen n tmessi (“firewood”)

References

  • Gutova, Evgeniya; Byler, Jonathan (2025), “Senhaja de Srair - English Dictionary”, in Webonary‎[1], retrieved 2025
  • Gutova, Evgeniya (2021) Senhaja Berber Varieties : phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax (Thesis)‎[2], Paris, France: HAL

Tarifit

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

Compare Kabyle timess (“fire, hell”), Tachawit times (“fire, hell”), Northern Saharan Berber timsi (“fire, hell”), Siwi temsi (“fire, hell”), Nefusa temsi (“fire, fireplace”), Sokna timsi (“fire”), Tuareg temse (“fire”).

Noun

timessi f (usually uncountable, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⵉⵎⴻⵙⵙⵉ)

  1. fire, flame, blaze
  2. spark
  3. hearth (of fire)
  4. fever

Declension

Inflection of timessi
singular plural
free state timessi —
construct state tmessi —
  • timisit (“flint”)
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