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[Dama]

In none of the Ethio semetic languages qawa is the word for coffee. Not even in Ge'z.
Conclusion:
Gurage language is the most semitic of the Ethio semitic languages.

[sesame]

But the Arabic word for coffee is not Qawa but Qahwa or Gahwa! Which means the Gurages got the word from a Yemeni shop-keeper!

In none of the Ethio semetic languages qawa is the word for coffee. Not even in Ge'z.
Conclusion:
Gurage language is the most semitic of the Ethio semitic languages.

[Horus]

But the Arabic word for coffee is not Qawa but Qahwa or Gahwa! Which means the Gurages got the word from a Yemeni shop-keeper!

In none of the Ethio semetic languages qawa is the word for coffee. Not even in Ge'z.
Conclusion:
Gurage language is the most semitic of the Ethio semitic languages.

Not necessarily. The roots of the words - Chai (Kai) ሻይ፣ Chat (Khat) ጫት፣ qawa, kawa, khawa ቡና/ቡን... all the same which means a stimulating energy (kai). rather than Yemeni, coffee was widely introduced into Gurage by Muslims. Until recently, in Christian Kistane both coffee and Chat used to be considered Muslim culture. In Addis Ababa, I grew up very close to Yemeni Ethiopians. Their culture is Tea not coffee.

[Dama]

But the Arabic word for coffee is not Qawa but Qahwa or Gahwa! Which means the Gurages got the word from a Yemeni shop-keeper!

In none of the Ethio semetic languages qawa is the word for coffee. Not even in Ge'z.
Conclusion:
Gurage language is the most semitic of the Ethio semitic languages.

Not necessarily. The roots of the words - Chai (Kai) ሻይ፣ Chat (Khat) ጫት፣ qawa, kawa, khawa ቡና/ቡን... all the same which means a stimulating energy (kai). rather than Yemeni, coffee was widely introduced into Gurage by Muslims. Until recently, in Christian Kistane both coffee and Chat used to be considered Muslim culture. In Addis Ababa, I grew up very close to Yemeni Ethiopians. Their culture is Tea not coffee.

Not explained is the stated 'history' that Qawa was introduced to Gurage by Muslims, which in turn means by Yemenis.
Though Gofa/Gamo is less than 200km away from Gurage where it's claimed that the Coffee plant was first 'discoveted' or 'domesticated', why is that it could have been a Gurage that discovered and domesticated in Gurage itself that grows coffee? There is no proof that it was not Gurage who domesticated it for the first time. It could have been by intellectual dishonesty that coffee is believed to have been first discovered or domesticated by Gamo/Gofa.
Also, your presumptive 'history' that Islam was introduced to Gurage by Imam Ahmed el-Ghazi has no factual toes to stand on. Islam in Gurage, on the contrary, is much older. There once existed a Gurage Sultanate reaching up to the present Arsi/Sidamo.