@article{Voigt_1999, title={Κολόη und Ḳoɦayto (‘Auf-/Ausblick’): Studien zur äthiopischen Toponomastik. 1}, volume={2}, url={https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/aethiopica/article/view/535}, DOI={10.15460/aethiopica.2.1.535}, abstractNote={<p>The Eritrean place names <em>Ḳ</em><em>o</em><em>ħ</em><em>ay-to</em> and <em>Ḳ</em><em>o</em><em>ħ</em><em>ay-n</em> contain the root √<em>ḳl</em><em>ħ</em> which can be recognized too in the Old South Arabian place name <em>Ḳ</em><em>l</em><em>ħ</em><em>n</em>. The identity of <em>Ḳ</em><em>o</em><em>ħ</em><em>ayto</em> with the classical Κολόη reported by the Periplus Maris Erythraei (1<sup>st</sup> century A.D.) is based on phonological and semantic considerations. The meaning of the root becomes evident from Sabaen <em>ḳl</em><em>ħ</em> ‘raised water-channel’ as well as from its modern Yemeni Arabic equivalent <em>qal</em><em>ħ</em> ‘upper fields; a water channel through which water is conducted to higher level pipes’. In Tigrinya the same root is attested in several verbal and nominal forms as in <em>ḳwåla</em><em>ɦ</em><em>ta</em> ‘upward look with raised head’. This meaning fits very well to the geographic position of <em>Koloë</em>/<em>Ḳ</em><em>o</em><em>ɦ</em><em>ayto</em> on the eastern edge of the Eritrean plateau.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Aethiopica}, author={Voigt, Rainer}, year={1999}, month={Jul.}, pages={90–102} }