ignna

Tashelhit

ايڭنّا

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Afroasiatic?

Proto-Berber *a-gĭnna

Medieval Tashelhit اِڮنَّ (igenna)

Tashelhit ignna

Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit اِڮنَّ (igenna, “sky”), from Proto-Berber *a-gĭnna (“sky”), possibly from Proto-Afroasiatic. Cognate with Kabyle igenni (“sky”) and Tarifit ajenna (“sky”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iɡnːa/

Noun

ignna m (plural ignwan, Tifinagh spelling ⵉⴳⵏⵏⴰ, Arabic spelling ايڭنّا)

1. sky

   ايقّن يڭنّا س ومدلو. ― Iqqn ignna s umdlu. ― The sky is covered with clouds.

Inflection

Inflection of ignna

	singular	plural
free state	ignna	ignwan
annexed state	yignna, ignna	ignwan

Derived terms

• bab ignwan (“God”)
• irn ignna (“muslim months”)
• lɛilm n yignna (“astronomy”)
• tamkrazt n ignwan (“lightning”)
• wiss sa ignwan (“the seventh sky”)

See also

• akal (“earth”)
• amdlu (“cloud”)
• ljnnt (“heaven”)

References

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 2 F–L (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/2) (in French), Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1060a