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ˁágˁeg (yeˁágˁeg/ľiˁágˁag)
basic morphological information
v. (QR)
1. to stagger, to roll from one side to another; 2. to shake (trans.)
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تمايل
Naumkin–Kogan 2021 :525
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text examples
1. šáṭar ḷaḷ yeˁöwégen wa-yaˁágob ľiḳṣáˁ yeˁágˁeg wa-ṭaʰ ḳénho fáḥre ‘When a calf is born and wants to stand up it staggers, and all newborn animals are like this’ (Naumkin – Kogan 2021:525)
2. ksek ṭarb έṣaḷ di-tífiṭ ˁágˁokk beʸh ˁaf yešráḳaḥ ḷe-ḥaryémo ‘I found a hard trunk of a t.-tree and I shook it till it went out of the ground together with its root’ (field notes)
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etymology
No clear-cut etymology detected. Cf. perhaps Tgr. täˁaggägä ‘to be slender, thin; to collapse, to die (animals)’, Tna. ˁagäg bälä ‘to be about to die’. The similarity to JPA ˁgˁg ‘to roll, to wallow’ is likely accidental.