igr

See also: i. Gr. and -igr

Tashelhit

تيكليت ن يان ييڭر (tiklit n ya yigr, “Painting of a field.”)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-?

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros

Proto-Italic *agros

Latin agerbor.

Proto-Afroasiatic

Proto-Berber *a-agăr

Proto-Berber *e-găr

Medieval Tashelhit ايكر (iger)

Tashelhit igr

Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit ايكر (iger, “field”), from Proto-Berber *e-găr (“field”). Widely considered to be borrowed from Latin ager (“field”), though inheritance from Proto-Afroasiatic cannot be ruled out. Compare Akkadian ugārum (arable land, meadow), Ugaritic 𐎜𐎂𐎗 (ủgr, “field, soil”) and Proto-Chadic *gVr- (“field, agriculture”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iɡr/

Noun

igr m (plural igran, feminine equivalent tigrt, Tifinagh spelling ⵉⴳⵔ, Arabic spelling ايڭر)

1. field

   Synonyms: ifarḍ, taɣult, anammr

   سموتّي يوّوتا ن ييڭران. ― smutti iwwuta n yigran. ― move the fields boundaries.

Inflection

Inflection of igr

	singular	plural
free state	igr	igran
annexed state	yigr, igr	yigran, igran

Derived terms

• bu igran (“hare”)
• igr n zzit (“olive grove”)
• igran n lbur (“non-irrigable fields”)
• igran n waman (“irrigable fields”)

See also

• akal (“earth, soil”)
• amzzur (“manure”)
• amḍllu (“topsoil, loam”)
• targa (“irrigation ditch”)
• tayuga (“plough”)
• urti (“garden”)

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 1060b