v. (IV)

a. ifúḷ ṭaʰ ésdokš ‘Why have you made your hair so thick?’ (Bulakh et al. 2021:261)

b. ˁéyyek díˀʸho šágaraʰ tesdέk ṣáˁḷof ʸhóṣ̌ik tos wa-ˀesdékoʰ ṣáˁḷof wa-ˁemέroʰ hin miľhóˁoʰ kor nezóˁom nḥáṭes ‘I wanted by tree to have thick foliage, and I watered it, and it produced thick foliage, and it made a shadow for us, so that we can sit below it’ (Bulakh et al. 2021:261)

c. ésdek deʰ šérhom ṣáˁḷof ‘This tree produced thick foliage’ (Bulakh 2021:279)

The form yesódek is irregular and perhaps borrowed from the active type of the basic stem (Bulakh et al. 2021:260, fn. 50).

The stem IV does not denote any causation, but rather implies an external possession with the meaning ‘to thicken its foliage (of a tree), to have thick hair (of a human being)’ (Bulakh 2021:279).

The form sedigtoh in Müller 1905:282 (wa-ˁémor heh állāh díbbeh wa-sedígtoh ṭhar Yū́nān ‘Und es machte ihm Gott eine Kürbis, und er wuchs über Jona empor’), misinterpreted by Leslau, is explained by our informants as (e)sdek toʸh ‘he (God) made it thick’. Possibly related is sédak ‘herbe’ (LS 282). (Bulakh et al. 2021:260, fn. 51)

• sédek 1. to be thick, plentiful; 2. to have something in abundance
• sotédek or sɛtédak to be dense and thick