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Soqotri Lexicon
أٞرْبُاعُو
erbóˁoʰ (órbiˁ with feminine nouns)
text examples
wa-ˀíno di-yeráḳaḥ ḷe-ŝᵉľɛʰ ˁeyhɔ́nten wa-ˀíno ḷe-ˀórbiˁ wa-ľhɛg ḷe-ʸhóbiˁ ‘And some of them start to produce the female inflorescence at three years, others at four, and others at seven’ (CSOL II 9:13)
morphological notes
The authochthonous form of the numeral for ‘4’, in modern Soqotri (as other numerals from ‘3’ upwards) restricted to counting of livestock and replaced elsewhere with an Arabic borrowing.
root
etymology
PS *ˀarbaˁ- four