رٞاحٞى
réḥe (yeráḥa/ľirḥá)
basic morphological information

v. (Ia)

to lick
облизывать
لحس
LS 397; CSOL I 634; Naumkin et al. 2013a:79; Naumkin et al. 2016a:48
text examples

a. geméḥes ˁeyyúg wa-géšeḷ mes ri wa-suwáḥiľi yeráḥa díˀʸheʰ ŝíbhɛ be-ľíšin ‘The men caught it and cut off its head. And the Swahili was smacking his lips’ (CSOL I 2:49)

b. ŝínik éľľehe teráḥa díˀseʰ náḥrer ‘I saw a cow licking its own nose’ (CSOL I 2:49)

c. ráḥayk díˀʸho éˀed ‘I licked my hand’ (CSOL I 2:49)

morphological notes

perfect 3 sg. f. réḥe  

semantic notes

The verb is attested in the Vienna corpus, but the correct meaning was not recognized by Müller (‘beschnuppert’, Müller 1905:249), nor by Leslau (‘flairer’, LS 397): wa-ˀélhe teráḥa gad di-fólhi ‘and the cow licks the skin of the calf’ (about a dead calf’s stuffed skin through which the cow is cheated in order to coax it to give milk) (CSOL I 2:49)

root
etymology
Proto-MSA *rḥy to lick
continental MSA