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شِيهُو

šího (du. šíyoy, pl. šíhin)

basic morphological information

n. (m.)

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нижняя часть спины
الجزء الأسفل من الظَهْر

LS 413; CSOL I 658

text examples

ḥezk éľľehe ... wa-ḷaṭ ḳö́ṣafk šího wa-feḳréroʰ ḷe-méḳṣeʰ di-nišímeʰ ‘I slaughtered a cow ... and then I cut the articulation of the spinal column between the neck and back segments’ (CSOL I 25:13)

root

šyy

etymology

The only clear-cut parallel is Jib. šɔ̄ ‘back, spine’. It is hard to say whether these two lexemes are eventually related to the terms for genitalia (and similar) dealt with under šɛʰ ‘genitals’.