v. (VIII)

díˀʸho šouḥέroʰ ṭahέroʰ ṭeʸh ˁénoʰ wa-ḥan ḳéyhon kέrhe betáˁľin ‘My wife set off (for her business) one year, and it was when we were young and newly married’ (Naumkin et al. 2019b:80)

For semantic reasons, the verb is used only in plural forms (plural agreement for subjects denoting married couples is regular in Soqotri).

• báˁaḷ to marry (a man or a woman)
• báḥľe in di-báḥľe the owner, one who has
• mébˀḥeľ male slave
• mebˁéḷoʰ female slave
• baˁ- master, owner
• ébˁeḷ to marry off one’s daughter
• šébˁeḷ to recognize something as one’s own
• báˁľhi my Lord (God)