adv. 

a. wa-ˀérem deʰ mákon ḥídɛr sémek beʸh deʰ waḳt ‘The Makon had been built then, by that time’ (CSOL I 2:1)

b. wa-kéľľama ékob táˀḥɛḷ ḷe-ḥeʰ sémek teŝέrom bek be-kḥáreʰ wa-ḳay ‘If the worms enter through the mouth, then they will torment you with coughing and vomiting’ (CSOL I 30:7)

di-ˁam sémek ‘from then on’:

wa-sákata di-ˁam sémek šérhom wa-ṭarb wa-šfɔ́niŝ wa-gemíˁ ‘And from then on, they have all been silent: trees, wood, animals’ (CSOL II 21:6)

tóˀo sémek + imperfect ‘when he was close to doing something’:

tóˀo sémek yáˁŝeŝ díˀʸheʰ ken ˁážeʰ gará beʸh ḥaľ wa-ṣáme ‘When he was about to stand up from his wife, his fate caught up with him, and he died’ (CSOL I 17:10)

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