The South Arabian alphabet, a sister script to the Phoenician alphabet, is the script from which the Ge ' ez alphabet ( an abugida ) is descended.

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In this way, the South Arabian alphabet evolved into the Ge ' ez alphabet between the 5th century BC and the 5th century AD.

An abugida ( from Ge ‘ ez አቡጊዳ ’ äbugida ), also called an alphasyllabary, is a segmental writing system in which consonant – vowel sequences are written as a unit: each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary.

It is an Ethiopian name of the Ge ‘ ez script, ’ ä bu gi da, taken from four letters of that script the way abecedary derives from Latin a be ce de.

There are a few historical records claiming that this law code was translated into Ge ' ez and entered Ethiopia around 1450 in the reign of Zara Yaqob.

In Ge ' ez and the modern Ethiosemitic languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea, two forms exist: ፋሲካ (" Fasika ", fāsīkā ) from Greek Pascha, and ትንሣኤ (" Tensae ", tinśā ' ē ), the latter from the Semitic root N-Ś -', meaning " to rise " ( cf.

Central areas of Eritrea and most tribes in today's northern Ethiopia share a common background and cultural heritage in the Kingdom of Aksum ( and its successor dynasties ) of the first millennium ( as well as the first millennium BC kingdom of D ’ mt ), and in its Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Church ( today, with an autocephalous Eritrean branch ), as well as in its Ge ' ez language.

" Other dated inscriptions are used to determine a floruit for GDRT ( interpreted as representing a Ge ' ez name such as Gadarat, Gedur, Gadurat or Gedara ) around the beginning of the 3rd century.

Unless Jarma is a nickname for Axum ( hypothetically from Ge ' ez girma, " remarkable, revered "), the capital had moved from Axum to a new site, yet undiscovered.

The remaining 95 % are Christians, so divided: 78 % of the Eritrean Orthodox faith, 12 % Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic ( whose mass is held in Ge ' ez as opposed to Latin ), and 5 % belonging to various Protestant and other Christian denominations, the majority of which belong to the ( Lutheran ) Evangelical Church of Eritrea.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church prescribes a number of fasting ( tsom Ge ' ez: ጾም ṣōm ) periods, including Wednesdays, Fridays, and the entire Lenten season, so Ethiopian cuisine contains many dishes that are vegan ( Amharic: ye-tsom የጾም ye-ṣōm, Tigrinya: nay-tsom ናይጾም nāy-ṣōm ).

Following this, berbere is added to make a spicy keiy ( Amharic: ቀይ ḳey, Tigrinya, Ge ' ez: ቀይሕ ḳeyyiḥ ; " red ") wat, or may be omitted for a milder alicha wat or alecha wat ( Amharic: አሊጫ ālič ̣ ā ).

Meat such as beef ( siga, Ge ' ez: ሥጋ śigā ), chicken ( Amharic: ዶሮ dōrō, Tigrinya: ደርሆ derhō ), fish ( Amharic: asa ), goat or lamb ( Amharic: beg, Tigrinya በግዕ beggiʻ ) is added ; legumes such as split peas ( Amharic: ክክ kik, Tigrinya: ክኪ kikkī ) or lentils ( Amharic: ምስር misir, Tigrinya: ብርስን birsin ); or vegetables such as potato ( dinich, Amharic: ድንች dinič, Tigrinya ድንሽ diniš ), carrots and chard ( Tigrinya: costa ) are also used in wat.

Meat or vegetables are sautéed to make tibs ( also tebs, t ' ibs, tibbs, etc., Ge ' ez ጥብስ ṭibs ).

Another distinctive Ethiopian dish is kitfo ( frequently spelled ketfo ), which consists of raw ( or rare ) beef mince marinated in mitmita ( Ge ' ez: ሚጥሚጣ mīṭmīṭā, a very spicy chili powder ) and niter kibbeh.

Fit-fit or fir-fir ( Ge ' ez: ፍርፍር firfir ; ፍትፍት fitfit ), made from shredded injera with spices, is a common breakfast dish.

Another popular breakfast food is dulet ( Ge ' ez: ዱለት dūlet ), a spicy mixture of tripe, liver, beef, and peppers with injera.

Tej is a potent honey wine, similar to mead, that is frequently served in bars ( in particular, in a tej bet ; Ge ' ez ጠጅ ቤት ṭej bēt, " tej house ").

Gurage cuisine additionally makes use of the false banana plant ( enset, Ge ' ez: እንሰት inset ), a type of ensete.

The plant is pulverized and fermented to make a bread-like food called qocho or kocho ( Ge ' ez: ቆጮ ḳōč ̣ ō ), which is eaten with kitfo.

The root of this plant may be powdered and prepared as a hot drink called bulla ( Ge ' ez: ቡላ būlā ), which is often given to those who are tired or ill. Another typical Gurage preparation is coffee with butter ( kebbeh ).

* Sat ( letter ), a letter in the Ge ' ez alphabet

Clay tablets written in Ugaritic provide the earliest evidence of both the West and South Semitic orders of the alphabet, which gave rise to the alphabetic orders of Arabic ( in earlier order of its abjad ), the reduced Hebrew, and more distantly Greek, and Latin alphabets on the one hand, and of the Ge ' ez alphabet on the other.

Some Vah letters resemble certain letters from Ge ' ez alphabet of Ethiopia used to write Amharic, the national language, N ' ko alphabet in Guinea, and Armenian alphabet.

The few works that had been published, most notably Onesimos Nesib's and Aster Ganno's translation of the Bible from the late nineteenth century, were written in the Ge ' ez alphabet, as was the 1875 New Testament produced by Krapf.

( These terms had been used previously in a more restricted sense by specialists in the fields of the Arabic alphabet and Ge ' ez script, from which languages they were borrowed respectively.

The South Arabic alphabet used in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Yemen beginning in the 8th century BC ( all three locations ) later evolved into the Ge ' ez alphabet.

It is possible that Da () ( which became Attic De ()), is the Doric form of Ge (), " earth "; the old name of the chthonic earth-goddess and Demeter is " Mother-Earth ".

Germanium ( ) is a chemical element with symbol Ge and atomic number 32.

The temperature lowered to () for the gadolinium alloy Gd < sub > 85 </ sub > Er < sub > 15 </ sub >, and the effect is considerably stronger for the alloy Gd < sub > 5 </ sub >( Si < sub > 2 </ sub > Ge < sub > 2 </ sub >), but at a much lower temperature (<).

Lake Tana ( also spelled T ' ana, Amharic: ጣና ሐይቅ Ṭānā Hāyḳ ," Lake Tana ," an older variant is Tsana, Ge ' ez ጻና Ṣānā ; sometimes called " Dembiya " after the region to the north of the lake ) is the source of the Blue Nile and is the largest lake in Ethiopia.

Jewish law includes several considerations whose effects are similar to those of modern intellectual property laws, though the notion of intellectual creations as property does not seem to exist – notably the principle of Hasagat Ge ' vul ( unfair encroachment ) was used to justify limited-term publisher ( but not author ) copyright in the 16th century.

Among the earliest evidence of the game are fragments of a pottery board and several rock cuts found in Aksumite Ethiopia in Matara ( now in Eritrea ) and Yeha ( in Ethiopia ), which are dated by archaeologists to between the 6th and 7th century AD ; the game may have been mentioned by Giyorgis of Segla in his 14th century Ge ' ez text " Mysteries of Heaven and Earth ," where he refers to a game called qarqis, a term used in Ge ' ez to refer to both Gebet ' a ( Mancala ) and Sant ' araz ( modern sent ' erazh, Ethiopian Chess ).

In the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church unleavened bread is used for communion ( called qddus qurban in the lithurgical language of the Eritreans and Ethiopians Ge ' ez ).

Germanium ( Ge ) was a widely used early semiconductor material but its thermal sensitivity makes it less useful than silicon.

Today Ge ' ez remains only as the main language used in the liturgy of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Ethiopian Catholic Church, and also the Beta Israel Jewish community.

Proportional counters or various types of solid-state detectors ( PIN diode, Si ( Li ), Ge ( Li ), Silicon Drift Detector SDD ) are used.

Ge: Cu photoconductors are among the best far-infrared detectors available, and are used for infrared astronomy and infrared spectroscopy.

Artemisinin is a Chinese herb ( qinghaosu ) that has been used in the treatment of fevers for over 1, 000 years, Ge Hong extracted the artemesinin using a simple macerate, and this method is still in use today.

Old Church Slavonic, Avestan, Coptic, Biblical Hebrew, New Testament Greek, Ge ' ez, Ardhamagadhi, Pali, Sanskrit and Latin are among the many dead languages used as sacred languages.

However many linguists hold that Bassa and Vai alphabets are unique in their own right for being African languages with alphabets alongside Ge ' ez, N ' ko, and Tifinagh ( used to write Berber languages ) that are neither influenced by Latin or Western writing system.

The Hall of Purple Light ( Ziguang Ge ) today, used for state receptions.

* Ge ' ez, the predecessor of many Ethiopian Semitic languages ( e. g. Amharic, Tigrinya, Tigre ) used as a liturgical language by Ethiopian Jews and by Ethiopian Christians ( in both the Orthodox Tewahedo and the Catholic churches ).

The earliest such references seem to be in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Greek, and Aramaic Enochic literature, and in certain Ge ' ez manuscripts of 1 Enoch ( mss A – Q ) and Jubilees used by western scholars in modern editions of the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha.

However, this word is also used in the Ge ' ez language to describe the Ark of the Covenant.

Besides, there is a " Boots-Losing House ", which is said to be the place where Ge Hong and his teacher Bo Jing used to discuss scriptures.

The Ethiopian calendar ( Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ዘመን አቆጣጠር ), also called the Ge ' ez calendar, is the principal calendar used in Ethiopia and also serves as the liturgical calendar for Christians in Eritrea belonging to the Eritrean Orthodox Church, Eastern Catholic Church and Lutheran Evangelical Church of Eritrea.

Tabot ( Ge ' ez ታቦት tābōt, sometimes spelled tabout ), is a Ge ' ez ( as well as Ethio-Semitic ) word referring to a replica of the Tablets of Law, onto which the Biblical Ten Commandments were inscribed, used in the practices of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.