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Soqotri Lexicon
ڛكٞى
ŝke, ŝkɛ (yeŝóki/ľóŝik)
basic morphological information
text examples
bö́ḳaḷk di-ḥágher diˀáḷ eˀḷhíten eŝóki ‘I went up to Hagher to the cows under my care’ (CSOL I 20:2)
root
etymology
For a detailed etymological discussion of the Soqotri verb see Naumkin et al. 2022:279, where it is identified with PWS *ŝky ‘to look’. Brockelmann (LSyr. 473) further connects Arb. škw ‘to complain’, which he renders as ‘questus est auxilium exspectans’.