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Soqotri Lexicon
مٞارٞت
méret (yemárot/ľimrέt or ľimrót)
basic morphological information
text examples
a. ḷaḷ yemέrot ŝḥaf ḥóuḷob deʸh kánaḥ ŝḥaf di-yeˁóumor heʸh mérkeb ‘When milk is warmed on fire, some more milk is milked to be added to it, which is called mérkeb’ (field notes)
b. kᵉḷoḷk e-míˀšer be-ḳašmέri tóˀo ˁak méretk be-dέfɛʰ di-féẓ̂feẓ̂ di-ˁíṣ̌eʰ ‘I threw my shawl into the face of a billy goat – and I was still red-hot (because of running) – at the bank of a pooľ (Naumkin et al. 2022:270)
root
etymology
The origin of Proto-MSA *mrt ‘to be red-hot’ is unknown. Contra Rhodokanakis 1991:55, hardly related to Arb. mart- ‘a waterless desert in which there is no herbage’.