In "Ethiopic" heat, the air of the novel becomes "stagnant and enervating".
Earlier this month the musician, whose parents emigrated to Canada from Ethiopia, had donated $50,000 to the University of Toronto to establish an Ethiopic studies course.
Athanasius ordained Frumentius bishop and commissioned him to initiate the cultural adaptation of Greek Christianity's biblical-liturgical texts to Ethiopic symbols and language.
There are also works written in Geʿez (Ethiopic) and Amharic, two of the languages of Ethiopia, which is the one part of Africa where Christianity has been practiced long enough to be considered traditional.
An example is the Ethiopic stem type ʾastaCāCaC-, as in ʾastaḥāmam-a 'he studied closely,' which combines the stem prefix ʾasta- with a long vowel ā and the root √ḥmm.
The text is still extant in Greek and in several translations from Greek into Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, and other languages.
Jubilees is preserved in its entirety only in an Ethiopic translation, which was derived from a Greek translation made from the Hebrew.
Although some scholars once considered the so-called Ethiopic languages to be a branch within Semitic, these languages are now referred to as Ethio-Semitic.
The Sabaean offshoot, a graceful and elegant script consisting of 29 letters, spread into Africa, where it became the progenitor of the Ethiopic alphabet; this in turn gave birth to the modern Amharic, Tigré, Tigrinya, and other alphabets of modern Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Translated at an early date into Arabic, Ethiopic, and Greek, Isaac's extensive writings affected Byzantine and Russian theologians and philosophers from the 10th to the 19th centuries.
