aabe

See also: åbe

Estonian

Etymology

Created artificially from the names of the first two letters of the alphabet - "aa" and "bee".

Noun

aabe (genitive aape, partitive aabet)

1. letter

Declension

Declension of aabe (ÕS type 6/mõte, p-b gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		aabe	aaped
accusative	nom.
	gen.	aape
genitive			aabete
partitive		aabet	aapeid
illative		aapesse	aabetesse aapeisse
inessive		aapes	aabetes aapeis
elative		aapest	aabetest aapeist
allative		aapele	aabetele aapeile
adessive		aapel	aabetel aapeil
ablative		aapelt	aabetelt aapeilt
translative		aapeks	aabeteks aapeiks
terminative		aapeni	aabeteni
essive		aapena	aabetena
abessive		aapeta	aabeteta
comitative		aapega	aabetega

Further reading

• “aabe”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Somali

Etymology

From Proto-Afroasiatic *ʔab-. Cognate with Proto-Semitic *ʾab- (“father”). See aabo.

Noun

aabe m

1. father (male parent), dad