The purpose of this study is to develop morphological analyzer for Amharic compound words. Arnnumber of researchers attempted to develop morphological analyzer for Amharic si nce 2000rn(Abiyot, 2000; Tesfaye, 2002; Saba and Gibbon, 2005; Gasser, 20 II) and their analyzers providerna very good performance. However, as far as the researcher has noted, nothing is reported onrntheir findings and results about analysis of compound words. For this reason, the researcherrn