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Soqotri Lexicon
ڛَكْس
ŝaks (du. ŝáksi, pl. éŝkes)
basic morphological information
text examples
ḷe-teḳḷɛ́m ˁeʸh érhon ŝᵉľɛʰ ḥimbóbeʰ men ŝaks iŝ-ŝaks wa-ḷaṭ iŝ-ŝaks ‘May three of his own goats jump, Himbobe, from one cliff to another, and then another’ (CSOL I 9:2)
root
etymology
Etymologically uncertain (Naumkin et al. 2015:57). Cf. perhaps Akkadian šakāsu ‘to dry out’.