How did Amharic words pass through time? Amharic, an Ethio-Semitic language, has undergone phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic changes through time. This book examines the nature of semantic change (or diachronic semantics) in the history of Amharic. It is, of course, based on the assumption that everything in the universe is in a perpetual state of change. The book displays the process of meaning change by providing linguistic evidences from Amharic. More specifically, it demonstrates how a multiplicity of factors leads to change in the semantics of words. It...