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Soqotri Lexicon
بَيْت
beyt
basic morphological information
text examples
a. wa-tezáˁa bíyyoʰ men béytak wa-deš bésen ɛytémoʰ wa-maḥazέḷoʰ ‘Oh my son, take a wife from your house, a poor orphan from among them’ (CSOL I 20:9-10)
b. aḷ-men ḥaʰ tefgέr fέger wa-ˀaḷ-men ḥaʰ tešeṭáḷɛm ke bek men bítak aḷ-ŝébaˁk wa-ˀaḷ-róḥosk be-ḥoukemíten ‘Not from here will you get a half of a head, and not from here will you have your dinner, if you were not sated at your home, and did not reap the harvest from your palms’ (Naumkin–Kogan 2021:532)
morphological notes
bítiy 'his home area' (Bulakh 2024:150)
other notes
Borrowed from Arabic bayt-.
root
derivates
- bet aľ-máḳdis the Temple
- bítak your house
etymology
PS *bayt- house