إِيتِي
íti (yeˀóti/ľiˀtέ)
basic morphological information

v. (Ib)

to grow weak
быть слабым, слабеть
كان ضعيفَا، ضعُف
Naumkin et al. 2016a:49
text examples

men sáˁaʰ di-(ˀe)šráḳaḥ ho darrág di-gámiˁaʰ ítik wa-ˀaḷ-gésork ľišέrḳaḥ óˁod ṭey be-ṭey wa-ho ˀaḷ-ˀéraḥk men tíyoʰ ‘As I was going up the staircase of the university, I got weak and I could not go up. I went little by little, and I could not (go) because of weakness’ (field notes)

morphological notes

(3 sg.f. ítoʰ)

root
ˀty
derivates
etymology

As admitted by Leslau (CDG 46), his earlier comparison to Gez. ˀtt ‘to be removed, taken away; to withdraw’ (LS 77) is hardly appealing. Cf. perhaps Arb. waṯˀ- ‘a breaking of the flesh without separation of the parts, not reaching the bone; a bruising of the bone without its breaking’.

By regular expression