SLOnline
Soqotri Lexicon
حَي
ḥay
basic morphological information
other notes
In be-ḥay mek ˁed ‘by your life’:
be-ḥay mek ˁed kaḷ ekóbki ‘I swear by your life that we will enter’ (CSOL II 20:53)
root
derivates
- di-yaḥáyya bek welcome!
- ḥayáʰ life
etymology
An Arabism (Wehr 256)