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Soqotri Lexicon
شَاعَي، شَاعِى
šáˁay or šáˁi (yešaˁáyin or yešaˁíyin/ľišáˁa)
basic morphological information
v. (II)
1. to delay (intransitive); 2. to delay (transitive)
задерживаться; задерживать
تأخّر
CSOL I 656; CSOL II 589; Naumkin et al. 2019b:88
задерживаться; задерживать
تأخّر
text examples
1.
a. wa-ʸheʰ šáˁi be-gáḥi ‘He was lingering in the wadi’ (CSOL I 18:43)
b. šeˁénoʰ érhon tóˀo šέˁe ˁes biˀḥóľis ‘The goats were left without milking because the owners came too late’ (field notes)
2.
a. tóˀo eráḥki ˁamḳ di-ḥádeb aḷ-ˀéraḥ ḥumár di-ˁag yóˁod ˁaľέ be-rέfɛʸh šáˁay béyki ‘When we were midway, the other man’s donkey could not go any further: it was ascending very slowly and delaying us’ (CSOL II 5:16)
morphological notes
‘To delay someone (be-)’ (2a)
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